787-9 appalling World Traveller seats
Jan 31, 2020, 8:57 am
#16
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: UK - Hampshire & London
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QR 787s are 9 abreast as well. Coming back from DOH last week, I was going to do my usual mid flight walking loop but gave up half way down the first Y aisle. I was having to essentially crab it sideways down the aisle because of all the shoulders and legs sticking out. It didn’t look comfortable at all, and I have flown a fair bit of longhaul Y.
Jan 31, 2020, 9:03 am
#17
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
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QR 787s are 9 abreast as well. Coming back from DOH last week, I was going to do my usual mid flight walking loop but gave up half way down the first Y aisle. I was having to essentially crab it sideways down the aisle because of all the shoulders and legs sticking out. It didn’t look comfortable at all, and I have flown a fair bit of longhaul Y.
Jan 31, 2020, 9:10 am
#18
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: living near Malaga
Programs: BA Gold , Mucci recipient. Coffee Drinker, Blue Sky Thinker
Posts: 2,112
I too have sworn not to fly Y on a 787 again, its really appalling - too tight and too hard.
If you have to I urge you to try for an aisle seat and to choose the side of the plane that suits your eating/drinking hand preferences.
Also if like me you have a rather flat behind take a pillow as it like sitting on a park bench.
If you have to I urge you to try for an aisle seat and to choose the side of the plane that suits your eating/drinking hand preferences.
Also if like me you have a rather flat behind take a pillow as it like sitting on a park bench.
Jan 31, 2020, 9:15 am
#19
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 5,797
I did my first 789 Y flights last week. I was lucky not to have anybody next to me in the exit row but it would have been unbearable if there had been somebody there. Legroom obviously not an issue at the exit but there was zero room at the hips and i was overlapping seats at the shoulders. Vueling was up to now the only airline I flatly refused to fly but the BA 787s have joined them.
I cant fathom how the 788 is worse.
I cant fathom how the 788 is worse.
Jan 31, 2020, 9:21 am
#20
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Aberdeen
Programs: BA Gold, Flying Blue Plat, UA Silver, Bonvoy Titanium Lifetime, Hilton Diamond, IHG Gold Ambassador
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I did my first 789 Y flights last week. I was lucky not to have anybody next to me in the exit row but it would have been unbearable if there had been somebody there. Legroom obviously not an issue at the exit but there was zero room at the hips and i was overlapping seats at the shoulders. Vueling was up to now the only airline I flatly refused to fly but the BA 787s have joined them.
I cant fathom how the 788 is worse.
I cant fathom how the 788 is worse.
Jan 31, 2020, 9:27 am
#21
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Mexico
Programs: BAEC Gold / Marriott Platinum
Posts: 3,547
It's really not pleasant for someone of my build. If I'm flying long haul now has to be a minimum of Y+.
As CWS mentioned above, the moment a reasonable POUG presents itself, get the CC out.
As CWS mentioned above, the moment a reasonable POUG presents itself, get the CC out.
Jan 31, 2020, 9:30 am
#22
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 5,797
Out of principle I will just fly another airline. I'm not rewarding BA for turning the screw on its passengers.
Jan 31, 2020, 9:38 am
#23
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 160
You don't really need to mention the nationality of your fellow passenger, especially when you contrast them with an assertive person. Less stereotyping please.
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Jan 31, 2020, 9:59 am
#24
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Morbihan, France
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People ask me why I pay to fly in Club, and this is why. I have no problem with leg room even in CE (I've not flown in ET for years) and this is why. I am a fat person magnet. For some reason they sit next to me and threaten to engulf me. Those seats sound dreadful and yet I am sure that if there was any way that they could squeeze 11 seats, they would do just that. They just do not seem to have caught up with the idea that the populations in the West are ever more corpulent and take up more room. My sympathies to all involved.Might I add that the aisles are not much fun for those who have to shimmy down them.
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Jan 31, 2020, 10:17 am
#25
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Ipswich
Posts: 7,543
My first 787 trip I was sat at the window with two average build strangers as neighbours. The only way we could all sit was if I twisted slightly into the window, the middle chap then placed his left shoulder on top of my right oneand his right shoulder under the left shoulder of aisle chap. We sat slightly twisted and thus intertwined the whole way back from the US. I was pretty sore afterward for sitting that long in a twisted position.
I vowed never to do it again and so far have only had one more 787 flight in Y. TS came to my aid but even so it's a brutal seat. For those who think they've experienced something similar on other frames, think again. You really haven't. And I say that as someone who normally pays little heed to details like which plane, which generation of seats etc. Heck I even like old WTP!
I vowed never to do it again and so far have only had one more 787 flight in Y. TS came to my aid but even so it's a brutal seat. For those who think they've experienced something similar on other frames, think again. You really haven't. And I say that as someone who normally pays little heed to details like which plane, which generation of seats etc. Heck I even like old WTP!
Jan 31, 2020, 10:40 am
#27
Join Date: Feb 2014
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Posts: 6,428
The 787 is awful in economy. I did it a few times for LHR-BOG but i have given up. Now i fly via Frankfurt with LH (A340). Who would imagine that such an 'old' plane would be 10 times better than a new plane....
I remember i read someone on tripadvisor that called BA to change his flight because he was on 787 in economy and the BA agent told him that 787 is extremely popular in economy among flyers and they never received any complains! ( pretty much same response we get from some of the BA fanatics on this forum...)
I remember i read someone on tripadvisor that called BA to change his flight because he was on 787 in economy and the BA agent told him that 787 is extremely popular in economy among flyers and they never received any complains! ( pretty much same response we get from some of the BA fanatics on this forum...)
Jan 31, 2020, 10:46 am
#28
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Mexico
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Jan 31, 2020, 10:58 am
#29
Join Date: Jan 2014
Programs: GGL
Posts: 490
I have a friend who owns a fair bit of Suffolk, travels extensively, but would never dream of booking anything but economy. We share interests in a few aircraft so tend to discuss flying, and when he reports a 787 flight I enquire, driven by reports on this forum, if he doesn't find the seats rather narrow (he is broad in the right places).
The answer is always no.
The answer is always no.
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Jan 31, 2020, 11:05 am
#30
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