Ah this old 1-2-1/2-3-2/3-4-3/4-4-4 chestnut
Feels like I'm amongst a bunch of boys talking about football.
At the end of the day - i'm not concerned so much with how many abreast as i am with 1) square footage (how much real estate is at my disposal) 2) aisle access.
Depending on semantics and how you want to count, I'll take EK's 380 and EY's Pearl layout as an example. They're 8 across (again, if you're loose with definitions) but yet all have aisle access.
Conversely - BA's yin yang 747/777 main deck club world is a different kettle of fish altogether. Same goes for UA's 747 main deck layout. In name also 8 across - but not quite all aisle access.
You'll find the former two seats not far off SQ's and CX's sexy sounding 1-2-1 layouts SQUARE FOOTAGE wise, the latter two will fall quite far short.
What i'm trying to say is 1-2-1 when I'm facing forward, and no part of my seat and real estate goes under the seat in front of me/is part of the real estate of the seat in front - great. We have a name for it. It's called First Class.
When 1-2-1 is NOT quite like the above, but is skewed sideways somewhat and squashed back to front (reduced pitch) and there is actually some overlap of seats - it's called Innovation in seat design and good marketing. Not saying CX Cirrus and SQ diamond isn't comfy. It is very much so, but ultimately not a world apart from the two middle eastern seats in a 8 abreast configuration I referred to earlier.
Feels like I'm amongst a bunch of boys talking about football.
At the end of the day - i'm not concerned so much with how many abreast as i am with 1) square footage (how much real estate is at my disposal) 2) aisle access.
Depending on semantics and how you want to count, I'll take EK's 380 and EY's Pearl layout as an example. They're 8 across (again, if you're loose with definitions) but yet all have aisle access.
Conversely - BA's yin yang 747/777 main deck club world is a different kettle of fish altogether. Same goes for UA's 747 main deck layout. In name also 8 across - but not quite all aisle access.
You'll find the former two seats not far off SQ's and CX's sexy sounding 1-2-1 layouts SQUARE FOOTAGE wise, the latter two will fall quite far short.
What i'm trying to say is 1-2-1 when I'm facing forward, and no part of my seat and real estate goes under the seat in front of me/is part of the real estate of the seat in front - great. We have a name for it. It's called First Class.
When 1-2-1 is NOT quite like the above, but is skewed sideways somewhat and squashed back to front (reduced pitch) and there is actually some overlap of seats - it's called Innovation in seat design and good marketing. Not saying CX Cirrus and SQ diamond isn't comfy. It is very much so, but ultimately not a world apart from the two middle eastern seats in a 8 abreast configuration I referred to earlier.
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