Originally Posted by JDiver
Basically, that everyone has different opinions.
Upgrading is always OK with me... but 9BC and DE are good seats for me, as are 10A and F - because I am more interested in legroom than a window, for instance. Others don't like the fixed armrests with built-in tables and narrower seat width, the lav closeness or doing without a window / sitting next to a door.
YOur reply explains the confusion... on the legacy AA 757's row 9 is the exit row, and that must be what folks are talking about when speaking of the great row 9.. On the ex-TWA 757s it's row 7 that is the forward exit (with only seats D and F, no B nor C.) So it WOULD be row 8 that are the preferred coach seats on this aircraft.
As it's a flight from STL to LAS, I'll probably take the upgrade if offered, I just couldn't figure out what was so great about the seats a row BEHIND the seats with all the obvious extra legroom. I thought that maybe row 8 had been moved up a few inches and you could get more legroom without the trays in the armrests in row 9.