Originally Posted by
moondog
Sorry, but I remain less than impressed with your suggestion, though I too have never flown on one of the planes that you're implicitely plugging.
I, for one, have never brushed shoulders with "the cart" (my feet are a different matter), much less encroached upon the space of my fellow pax (who even on the spiffy EMB jets comprise a full 50% of the crowd) due to activity in the aisle.
May I ask where you found these stats (in your OP; the rest are well documented)?
I am not a wide person, and my arms don’t have much fat or muscle between the bone and skin, but my shoulders measure about 19 inches across, and often protrude into the aisle if I am stuck in an aisle coach seat, and especially if the person in the center seat is naturally protruding into my seat space. I don’t know American male average shoulder width, but one UK airline said that it had a study showing UK male average shoulder width is 16.5 inches. I usually travel first or business class, but those times in coach I sure remember the discomfort.
The Boeing 767 and the DC-9/MD80s with only one center seat per row, always seemed to provide me the most comfortable selection of coach seats!
For Boeing & DC-9/MD80 used the Boeing database, and used the inside width Boeing provides, and divided by number of seats per row.
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/air...n_manuals.html
For the 787, Boeing does not publicize the inside width directly, but on page 18 of the link below, and added the Boeing dimension – 43+21.5+86+21.5+43=215 inches
Boeing & the airlines are not discussing the 215 inches openly. (I have seen a commercial study that used 213 inches)
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/air...acaps/7878.pdf
For Embraer –
http://www.embraercommercialjets.com...=cross_section
For Airbus
http://www.airbusa380.com/
http://www.eads.com/1024/en/businet/...320/ta320.html
http://www.eads.com/1024/en/businet/...ta330-200.html
These are just raw statistics that each can use as they see fit.