1703 lie flat
 

Sitting on 1703 lax-ewr on a 757 w/ lie-flat. Very impressed so far. More comfortable than Virgin Upper Class IMO. CO did a great job with these suites!

If you don't mind me asking, how tall are you? I ask only because I found the seat comfortable until I tried to lay it down, which did not work so well because I'm 6'8".

Now I believe seats should be made to be comfortable for the tallest man in the world as well as the shortest man in the world, but I have to ask...at 6'8" is there any aviation seat, lie flat or other that is comfortable?

Cool, thanks for the report. I got my upgrade for Saturday's IAH-EWR 777 flt 60 with the new lie flats. I look forward to trying them out! I'm 6 ft even and will post a write-up.

Ciao,
FH

You have no idea :-:

I'm an absolute pile of a man, so I have girth to go with the height. I can fit width-wise into CO Y (barely) but I will still be encroaching on other's space with my shoulders and arms. While that in and of itself makes it a no go for me in Y, I absolutely cannot get my legs into 31" of pitch. It is a physical impossibility.

Now, for premium cabins, CO domestic F is perfectly comfortable for me. I can't use the tray table in the armrest but other than that' I'm perfectly fine. I tried the new lie flat seat at CO DO IV and it was fine as well, but my feet (size 16) didn't fit into the space with the seat upright; they certainly weren't going there to allow me to lie flat. But that's ok, I'm find with sleeping reclined. Hell, I'm fine with flying in general. :)

You made me wonder how basketball players travel, especially if they have to fly commercial mainline.

On Topic: Can I assume that 1703 was BusinessFirst since equipped with lie-flat? If not, was it better than BusinessFirst?

Could you possibly take pictures and add them to your write up I have not seen the new seats in the 757 yet

Update- I was a bit giddy when I wrote the initial post. The seat is very comfortable in any mode other than "bed". I'm 6 1 and I don't fit length wise. The VS bed is definitely more confortable.

The bulkheads are definitely the seats to get, with the full-width footwell. In all other seats, the foot space is tight, especially if one is wearing shoes when the seat is fully reclined.

If you are a 'side sleeper' (the traveler for whom the 777 seat was designed so well...:rolleyes:), I do think the footwell is adequate, and my frame is hardly petite. With that said, in the future I will absolutely try to pre-assign a bulkhead if possible.

I'm dissapointed to say the least. Less than 18 hours before the flight CO just downgauged my flight from a 777 to a 762. Bah, so much for my lie-flat seats.

:(


Ciao,
FH

I had the flatbed experience on CO 527 IAH-PHX this Wednesday.
(My folks that flew LHR-IAH BF today did not, go figure :rolleyes:)

Anyways, the FAs and passengers spent most of the trip experimenting with all the buttons.

Good news is that I didn't try to crush my spine unrolling the bed, like I did the first time I was on Virgin's Upper Class! :D

Bottom line - I really liked it.

The only tiny downer is wheeling your rollaboards off the plane afterwards, there's a bit of a chicane to navigate....