Road Warrior: flat lies in trans-Atlanic business class (Winging It)

Road Warrior: flat lies in trans-Atlanic business class

Today's Road Warrior column looks at the competition for business-class passengers across the Atlantic. The online version includes a correction from the print version in today's Inquirer business section on what kind of jets US Airways flies. Read all about it here.

Posted by Tom Belden on February 4, 2008 9:47 AM | Permalink

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Chad Carleton:

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Dear Mr. Belden:

I enjoy reading your "Philly Road Warrior" column, it's always interesting. On February 4th you wrote about business class seating, and were particularly complimentary as to British Airways' fully reclining business class seating. My experience with the British Airways fully reclining business class seating, admittedly a number of years ago shortly after it was introduced, was that while fully reclining with lots of leg room, it was NARROW. The BA 777 I was on, which on most airlines has max 2-3-2 abreast seating in business class, had 2-4-2 abreast seating albeit with fully reclining seats. I found the narrow width to be cramping and haven't flown on BA since. Lufthansa's business class seats may not go to a fully flat position, but they are close, and they are comfortably wide enough. On the last LH 747-400 I was on (same cabin width as a 777) the seating in business was still 2-3-2. My point is BA tossed in an extra column of seats that fully recline and hoped nobody would notice the width, I guess. Maybe they've changed since then, I hope so.

Chad Carleton
Marlton, NJ

Posted by Chad Carleton | February 5, 2008 8:24 PM

Posted on February 5, 2008 20:24

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