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Apr 11, 2007 | 12:26 pm

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Originally Posted by chornedsnorkack

35...40 inches pitch where Y has 32 inches and 4 abreast where Y has 6 or 5 abreast, or 6 abreast where Y has 7 or 8 abreast, is not double the floor area. So you cannot say almost all.

Sure you can. First, 40 inches of pitch in business is way too low. Let's look at the 'area' of C/J vs. Y seats on a UA 777.

-Business-
55 inches in length * 1/7th the plane in width = 7.86

-Economy-
31 inches in length * 1/9th the plane in width = 3.44

The ratio of areas is 2.28. That ratio would start to fall below 2 with a Business seat pitch below 48 inches, which is now mostly the exception (old business class on CX, LH, etc) than the rule.

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