Hard seats or bad reporting? "Nightmare of hard seats on flight to Budapest.
Jun 28, 2018, 8:12 am
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Hard seats or bad reporting? "Nightmare of hard seats on flight to Budapest.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/248094
El Al gets a lot of justified criticism but I wonder if this case is an exception. The 737 seat configurations are actually pretty good , and I don't think they have flown any other planes to Budapest. Is there something so different about their seats compared to other airlines that I am missing here? It may have been an UP plane but is the actual seat any different than any other LY 737 plane?
El Al gets a lot of justified criticism but I wonder if this case is an exception. The 737 seat configurations are actually pretty good , and I don't think they have flown any other planes to Budapest. Is there something so different about their seats compared to other airlines that I am missing here? It may have been an UP plane but is the actual seat any different than any other LY 737 plane?
Jun 28, 2018, 9:03 am
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They may have been unlucky to be sat on knackered seats. I've actually sat on a seriously knackered out seat on an UP 737. So much so that the purser blocked the entire last row (crew rest) for me (plus brought me a free meal...).
Jun 28, 2018, 2:37 pm
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On many flights this summer, including the two I had a misfortune to take the flights to BUD are operated by Israir. Israir uses A320 equipment with non-reclining seats. The pitch is horrible, and if you are 6 feet or higher there is no chance for you to rest your head. This is rather terrible, especially on the return red-eye, which is always late.