Originally Posted by SkyBeaver
I also really like the fact that Delta still flies some 767s on transcon routes from Portland and Seattle. I really miss the days when DC-10s and L-1011s were the gold standard for transcontinental air travel. I really miss the Delta L-1011 nonstops from Portland to New York and Boston, which ended in about 1999. Those days may be gone forever, but at least the 767 is closer to it than these miserable sardine-can 737-800s that Alaska and others fly.
I don't quite understand this. Delta's 763s have 17 inch wide seats in coach. Alaska's "miserable sardine-can" 738s have 17 inch wide seats in coach. In first, while the AS 738s offer 3 inches less legroom, the seats are 2.5 inches wider than in the DL 763s. Aisles are the same size. Would you be kind enough to explain how one is substantially more sardine-canish than the other in terms of passenger comfort?