Comments on: A Peek at United’s Newly Configured 757

By: Tom Smith

Tom Smith — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:46:19 +0000

The newly configured rows 15 and 16 are a disaster. Row 16 used to have extra legroom, and recline. Now they do now. 15BCDE all used to recline, now no seats in 15 recline. Why do airlines insist on making changes that make travel worse, in this case making 10 passengers markedly less comfortable than before? All just to add four seats.

By: UNITED’S NEW B-757 INTERIORS « The B.A.T. (Bay Area Traveler)

UNITED’S NEW B-757 INTERIORS « The B.A.T. (Bay Area Traveler) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:48:40 +0000

[...] Check out a great blurb, photos and discussion of this on the Cranky Flier. [...]

By: John - UAflyGuy

John - UAflyGuy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:40:58 +0000

Just flew on this Thursday DEN-BOS. I believe these are the same Recaro seats that SkyBus/VX uses/d. While attractive, they are terrible. The bottom is about 2″ shorter, and the front of the cushion is poorly supported, causing your legs to sag and often “submarine” – the seat fatigue was noticeably worse. The underseat power boxes are crazy big given the fact that there is no IFE system associated with them. If you ask me, power for laptops just isn’t a big issue for domestic flights, even transcon. The headphone jacks and controls were imbedded behind you vertically in the arm – you just can’t see anything, much less the jack outlet. And the worst thing – the seat back baskets. I could barely fit my Blackberry in, much less my headphones or a sandwich. With no place to stage the trash pickup meant everything was on the floor. I’m usually a big UA fan, and I know this is a done deal, but I can only shake my head…why oh why didn’t they actually test this.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:31:14 +0000

Ok, rather interesting that the pictures look exactly like the cabins of Delta Air Lines. Could it be that United is trying to copy what Delta has been doing for the past 5 years?

By: pf

pf — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:28:26 +0000

I had this aircraft on one flight. Looked nice, sat well. It could have used some more junk space in the seat pocket but it still was much more comfortable than southwest.

By: Lots of Flights

Lots of Flights — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:03:19 +0000

I was on one this Monday. I though the interior seamed darker than normal. But maybe that was just my Monday morning haze?

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:58:04 +0000

These seats look very similar to those of Allegiant, with a hard literature pocket above the tray table and nothing below it. But the Allegiant seats don’t recline.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:44:54 +0000

I’ve been on this plane twice; which given the fact that there’s only one in the fleet is pretty amazing.

E+ room has not been touched. They’re the same pitch. The extra seats came from the slimmer design of these seats. They’ve been pretty transparent with that discussion.

Shane – Even if UA did place an order for planes, there wouldn’t be any deliveries for quite a number of years. It makes great economic sense for them to re-do interiors since many FF’ers, including me, have tired of the dirty old interiors.

The leather seats in F are very comfortable.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:49:15 +0000

Cranky/David SF,
The seats are narrower forward to aft, not side to side. These seats don’t help the “Americans getting bigger” issue, but it doesn’t hurt it either.

By: Riley

Riley — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:32:38 +0000

The only good thing about the middle seats were the underseat storage. Sounds like that going away, too.