Given that this comes from the same source that claimed on its front page that Airbus, whose planes are consistently built and configured for more passenger comfort (quieter, wider seats, better lighting) than their Boeing counterparts, was actively pitching standing-only harnesses for the A380, it can't be taken for other than Boeing-sponsored hype. Remember that it took the NYT whole 7 days to retract that piece of obvious BS, saying that "The Times's questions to one aircraft manufacturer, Airbus, were imprecise"...yeah, right!

Having said that, I hope that Boeing is successful. But then, since Boeing is seriously pushing to the airlines an interior version with an extra row of Y seats that crams more passengers to their discomfort (these are the same 17.2" wide (narrow, actually) seats of a 737 but on a 14 hour transpacific flight), as a passenger I hope not to see too many of them out there. Boeing recently said that 2/3 of the orders for the 787 are in this crammed configuration. Of course, there's no mention of that crucial fact on the highly biased NYT article.