Delta feels the most cramped and NW is not much better. AA or UA is with whom I would go.

Wide & Coach...isn't that like saying Jumbo Shrimp? :p

Not if you're big enough to need two seats. Or, if you don't need two seats but just wanted the extra room, bring a violin.

true...but having a condition or object with you that mandates two seats together carries more weight than just buying two together because you feel like extra comfort. I read quite a few posts on FT where someone bought two seats for personal comfort/convenience and had one taken away from them by a FA or GA.

Not on the saver service. It's the same 3x2 seating on an MD-80 as any other carrier's MD-80 coach.

I've read accounts of heavy passengers who had their extra seat taken away - or located across the aisle.

Not always known is that the Airbus A320 fuselage is 6" wider than the Boeing standard fuselage (737/757), and this translates into a 1" greater width for each seat in a 6-across configuration.

Within a standard aircraft, though, each airline specifies its own seats, so there is a little further variation there. And where the tray tables are stowed in the armrests that cuts down on available seat width (because the armrest needs to be thicker within the standard dimensions). Where bulkhead seats have tables in the armrests while regular seats have seatback ones, you can laugh at those who think they are getting more legroom but haven't realised they have less width .........

From seatguru....

Midwest M82
regular service 21" wide
saver service 17" wide (ouch!)

NWA DC9
17" wide

NWA A3xx
17.2" wide (*not* 18")

NWA 757
17.2" wide

jetBlue A320
17.8" wide

jetBlue E170
18" wide

US Air A320
18" wide

US Air E170
18.25" wide

NWA uses the same seats on the Airbus as the 757...cost savings for the airline, discomfort and lost space for the customer.

Fly YX
 

Yes, the saver service does not have the wide coach seats, but if comfort is what you want, at least with YX you'll have a direct flight and shorter time sitting in coach. Any other airline you'll have to connect if flying from MKE.

(YX saver service seating does have an inch or two more legroom than coach on most other carriers too, it seems)

Actually, according to their website http://www.midwestairlines.com/MAWeb...stProfile.aspx Midwest offers 18" wide seat on Saver Service, which is the widest coach seat available from MKE-LAS (Signature Service seats are 21")