Originally Posted by
the810
Why is the middle seat useless? Unless someone's extremely obese, having an entire empty seat next to you gives you far more personal space than 4 cm of useless empty space between your torso and an armrest, especially if there's another person in the row. I'm 120 kg and still fit into the seat comfortably.
I would at least slightly understand this criticism if people were comparing it to Asian airlines, but suggesting that US First where you often don't get any food and which doesn't even give you lounge access is superior to euro-J?
European airlines are of course capable of offering "something better", but vast majority of J pax won't pay for a slightly wider chair on a 2 hrs. flight because there's no point.
The middle seat is pointless window dressing and pretending otherwise is dishonest. Even if it is empty it's still a tiny little seat, with minimal comfort. I have accepted that Europeans are chumps for their carriers but it's just sad. Call it all Y and be done with it.
"You don't often get any food". Surely you cannot be serious. AC is serving food on a 90 minute hop from YUL to DCA, on what is in effect a domestic leg on a subcontracted carrier, with style and politeness. Ditto drinks. There's legit complaints about the food but you're getting far better service and food on a transcon than you ever will in what passes for biz on the Continent. Even the shorter hops have options. Not that I usually need food on a 2 hour flight a lot of the time.
Given the complaints in here constantly about SK lounges it's incredibly rich to point out that as a pain point.
I'd much rather fly Southwest than what passes for J or Y in Europe.
And as for the fat American snide aside, without them DK wouldn't have any economic growth or much of an economy at all it seems.
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Moderator added context: The last statement is somewhat misleading, the United States is only the fourth largest importer of Danish goods after Germany, Sweden and the U.K.