Comments on: Closeup With BA’s New Club World Seat http://crankyflier.com/2007/10/31/closeup-with-bas-new-club-world-seat/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:05:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: QRC http://crankyflier.com/2007/10/31/closeup-with-bas-new-club-world-seat/comment-page-1/#comment-8530 QRC Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:40:22 +0000 http://crankyflier.com/2007/10/31/closeup-with-bas-new-club-world-seat/#comment-8530 Aka, hooray for the Open Skies agreement. And for Virgin Atlantic. Aka, hooray for the Open Skies agreement. And for Virgin Atlantic.

]]> By: QRC http://crankyflier.com/2007/10/31/closeup-with-bas-new-club-world-seat/comment-page-1/#comment-8529 QRC Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:38:21 +0000 http://crankyflier.com/2007/10/31/closeup-with-bas-new-club-world-seat/#comment-8529 I've done the Club World seat a few times and thought I'd start a controversy **cough cough** I mean comment. Okay, let me put it straight: I really don't like the Club World Seat. I am not a big guy. I am 5'10'' and 140 pounds. And this seat is just too narrow, I mean I can't move except lay on my side. I have debated it over and over again in my head (so with myself), I'd rather have CX's old lie-flat angled business class than Club World. Why? Because I sleep better, plain and simple. Another major problem with the Club World seat is your seat partner, aka that guy facing you who, whenever he so much as breathes the entire seat pod-thing shakes. Every single Club World seat I think is attached to the seat that's facing it, which makes you stuck to whatever the whims are of the person across from you. As for that plastic flimsy divider thing, "electronic" hardly describes it. You have to fiddle with it half the time to make it do what you want, and I've had two flights with it where it just wouldn't go up. A great embarrassing situation with the person across from you like "hey, I don't like you, but *$*@(, I can't make it go up so this is awkward" type of moment. Another problem: you're practically lying in the aisle if you have an aisle seat (on the contrary, window seats are pretty nice and secluded). Flight attendants bump you, pax disturb you, etc. because you're lying there by their feet. Go for SQ, CX (yea, I live in Asia), Lufthansa, I've heard UA's new J class is a big hit...but I try to avoid Club World if possible. They do a heck of a job marketing it...and it's just downhill from there. I’ve done the Club World seat a few times and thought I’d start a controversy **cough cough** I mean comment. Okay, let me put it straight: I really don’t like the Club World Seat. I am not a big guy. I am 5’10” and 140 pounds. And this seat is just too narrow, I mean I can’t move except lay on my side. I have debated it over and over again in my head (so with myself), I’d rather have CX’s old lie-flat angled business class than Club World. Why? Because I sleep better, plain and simple. Another major problem with the Club World seat is your seat partner, aka that guy facing you who, whenever he so much as breathes the entire seat pod-thing shakes. Every single Club World seat I think is attached to the seat that’s facing it, which makes you stuck to whatever the whims are of the person across from you.

As for that plastic flimsy divider thing, “electronic” hardly describes it. You have to fiddle with it half the time to make it do what you want, and I’ve had two flights with it where it just wouldn’t go up. A great embarrassing situation with the person across from you like “hey, I don’t like you, but *$*@(, I can’t make it go up so this is awkward” type of moment.

Another problem: you’re practically lying in the aisle if you have an aisle seat (on the contrary, window seats are pretty nice and secluded). Flight attendants bump you, pax disturb you, etc. because you’re lying there by their feet. Go for SQ, CX (yea, I live in Asia), Lufthansa, I’ve heard UA’s new J class is a big hit…but I try to avoid Club World if possible. They do a heck of a job marketing it…and it’s just downhill from there.

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