Originally Posted by
JetBlueFA
One, well two words, EXIT ROW. The exit row on the 320 is golden.I just booked tickets for extended family and put them in the exit row. On my commute home today I was in the exit row, 10F which doesn't recline but that doesn't matter, and I am still amazed but the amount of leg room. I was one of the last to board , I put my rollerboard as well as my tote into the overhead and practically walked into the row which already had 2 other customers seated.
The exit row is always the way to go if you want room and comfort. Same with the 190. The worse row on the 190 is row 11. They don't recline and if 10 reclines you feel compressed into your seat.
CitrusMCO, I'm glad you had a wonderful trip to MCO! If I may ask how was the temprature on board the aircraft during the flight. I had that plane yesterday, brought it down to IAD for you, and then had it again today and the temperature seemed to continously fluctuate between hot and cold even though I never touched the temp dial on my panel.
Since the row removal, I stopped booking my usual seats (in the old config - 11C, 11D, 12C, 12D) to sit up front for last to board, first to get off and more legroom. Are the exit rows really such a difference since the reconfiguration of the A320 seats?? I would honestly think that the pitch is about 36-37". I know it's a new FAA mandate, but I hate the fact that the window seats in an exit row don't recline. There's no point when the old system worked just fine - the FA locking the rows below 10,000 ft.
About temperature fluctuations during flight, I find this to be quite common on long haul flights. Nearly every transoceanic or transcontinental flight I have been on in my life has been freezing cold one minute and so hot the next.