190 seat A321s?

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Apr 14, 2019, 9:33 pm

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Data point...

In the October 2017 issue 8 of NAVI (and all earlier issues), it lists the ML 321 as 16J 169Y.
In the Winter 2018 issue 9 of NAVI (and all issues thereafter), it lists the ML 321 as 16J 174Y.

Does NAVI show pitch and therefore give an indication as to how they found the space for the extra seats?

Apr 14, 2019, 9:51 pm

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Does NAVI show pitch and therefore give an indication as to how they found the space for the extra seats?

I couldn't find anything regarding pitch in NAVI but here are the respective seatmaps from NAVI... you might need to magnify them

Oct 2017

Winter 2018

It looks like they moved the exit row 29 (and all rows behind it) forward, removed 29AF, added 28C and then added one row (41)... so it's possible the seat pitch didn't change.

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Apr 14, 2019, 10:17 pm

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It looks like they moved the exit row 29 (and all rows behind it) forward, removed 29AF, added 28C and then added one row (41)... so it's possible the seat pitch didn't change.

The emergency exit likely hasn't moved its spot in the fuselage, so if 29 is now farther forward, that suggests a tightening of pitch between the first and second emergency exits.

Apr 14, 2019, 10:21 pm

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The emergency exit likely hasn't moved its spot in the fuselage, so if 29 is now farther forward, that suggests a tightening of pitch between the first and second emergency exits.

I've never sat that "far back" in a 321, IIRC... so I was simply going off the seatmap approximations... my assumption was that the space in front of the 169Y row 29 was quite significant, allowing for it to move up further... but this is understanding that the seatmaps are most likely not to scale.

Rows 12 to 28 essentially haven't changed ahead of that exit row, so I'm going to assume that at the very least rows 12 to 28 did not change in pitch. Maybe rows 29 to 41 have less pitch?