Alaska Installs Recaro Seats On 737-900ERs
05-08-2012, 03:51 PM
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Alaska Installs Recaro Seats On 737-900ERs
From Seattle PI:
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines will be the first North American carrier to install new seats that provide more leg room while cutting weight, Alaska and Recaro Aircraft Seating announced Tuesday.
"Recaro's clever design includes a comfortable yet slimmer seatback and bottom and a literature pocket located above the tray table," Joe Sprague, Alaska Airlines' vice president of marketing, said in a news release. "That means our main cabin customers will enjoy more than an inch of extra legroom with our existing spacing between each row of seats."
The seats will go on all of Alaska's 22 new Boeing 737-900ERs scheduled for delivery from this fall through 2014. That means most flights will stick with the current seats.
Manufacturers have been making economy class seats slimmer in recent years.
Read more: Alaska Airlines installing lighter seats with more leg room - seattlepi.com
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines will be the first North American carrier to install new seats that provide more leg room while cutting weight, Alaska and Recaro Aircraft Seating announced Tuesday.
"Recaro's clever design includes a comfortable yet slimmer seatback and bottom and a literature pocket located above the tray table," Joe Sprague, Alaska Airlines' vice president of marketing, said in a news release. "That means our main cabin customers will enjoy more than an inch of extra legroom with our existing spacing between each row of seats."
The seats will go on all of Alaska's 22 new Boeing 737-900ERs scheduled for delivery from this fall through 2014. That means most flights will stick with the current seats.
Manufacturers have been making economy class seats slimmer in recent years.
Read more: Alaska Airlines installing lighter seats with more leg room - seattlepi.com
05-08-2012, 05:25 PM
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I've actually sat in these seats on a Swiss Air flight. They were on a 320 I flew from NCE to ZRH a month ago. The seats are far superior to older styles. The legroom improvement from placing the magazine pocket above the tray table, plus the table folding so you can use full or half is really impressive. The padding is a little thin and could get hard I would guess on a long haul flight, but I would still take these over less legroom on the older seats.
05-08-2012, 10:02 PM
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I think I have sat in the same seats on a couple of LH (Lufthansa) flights. They said the seats were new.
They are a "normal" width in the upper 1/2 of the seat, but the lower half are very thin, which gives you an extra 4? inches of legroom. I was on short flights, and they seemed comfortable...WAY better than some older Mesa ERJ and DAL 767 seats, and some other mainline seats with no lumbar support, and/or worn out cushions.
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They are a "normal" width in the upper 1/2 of the seat, but the lower half are very thin, which gives you an extra 4? inches of legroom. I was on short flights, and they seemed comfortable...WAY better than some older Mesa ERJ and DAL 767 seats, and some other mainline seats with no lumbar support, and/or worn out cushions.
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