Originally Posted by Olton Hall
When you are seated in an ERJ, there is definetly more elbow and shoulder room than the mainline planes. They aren't that load, quiter than a DC-9, well maybe not the screaming APUs some of them have.
Lavs take up room which means they take up seats. The earlier 757's (not the type CO has) use to have two more lavs in the rear for a total of 6. Those have long since been removed for an extra row of seats.
I agree with the basic premise of this thread that flying long distances on RJ's is not comfortable.
What's sad is that no CoEx RJ is as uncomfortable as the 737's CO flies tanscon out of EWR.
The RJ have more comfortable leather seats, the same industry-minimum 31" seat pitch. The RJ's have no middle seats and much larger windows.
Yes, the environment is narrower, but I find the packed-to-the-rafters CO 737's on a transcon far more dreadful, especially if I book late and land a middle seat.