Since Friday 1/30 I've done 6 segments. First pair, I'd booked 6D (or 5D, I forget) when I bought 'em, for the first flight out SAN-DEN-MKE. About to get off the parking shuttle bus and realize I'd left my wallet in the car. While heading back to the garage I get online and book the next flight (now via LAS-MKE) and see that this close out, the only available aisle seats are 1C, and then 1D. Crap, as I hate bulkheads (no seat-pocket to store my stuff). I keep checking, no dice. This wouldn't have been a problem at all with the old WN, I'd just get on at "A-61" and grab an aisle somewhere in the back.

I boarded, and quickly realized that some of y'all are nuts. Between the fixed bolster and I'm guessing the "pointy end" of the plane narrowing the seat width, 1C on a -700 was the single most uncomfortable seat I've been in other than being on a TPAC in an E- middle 11 hrs to NRT on a 787 I got stuck on a decade ago- and some of you pay extra for this seat?

Thank God it was only a ~1H flight, but I was still dreading 1D for 3.5 hrs to MKE. Get to LAS, and since we were < 1H out, couldn't change my seat (NOR see what was still available, which I think should WN should still make available) in the app. Kept having to pester the CS agent hoping for a CX or something, when YES! 28C came available.

I board, and turns out that I have the entire row to myself, but the best news was somehow WN didn't mess with the seat pitch back there (at least on the Max-8s) to make room for the ELRs up front.

The other 4 segments (back from MKE, then SFO and back) I'd had 6D/6C (and I think 2 out of 4 Max8s). These flights must not have been full, as IIRC I had empty rows/middles on all of them, and I think boarding G1 each time (and sometimes all by myself- gee, ain't I special 🙄 ). Personally, I don't get the hype about the ELR seats; on old WN the seat-pitch was good enough everywhere that my just-under-6'3" frame could fit in the back (where I would always sit; a free middle or row was more valuable to me with that seat pitch) and now I have ... more room than I need?

NGL, if I see the seat map and the ELRs have neighbors but the back has an empty row I'll probably just go for 26+; let WN collect some ELR revenue for those who'd pay for it 🤷🏾‍♂️. I did ask an FA if the pistachios were given out by seat location and/or by status, and was answered only the former, so I guess I'll have to hit up a Hudson's beforehand if I want some in the back 😁