The Next Boeing Clean-Sheet Will Probably Be a 757 Replacement
A comment from the former aerospace reporter for the Everett Herald:
A comment from the former aerospace reporter for the Everett Herald:
Big opportunity here for Boeing to improve passenger sanity: Make the fuselage wider so we can have 19- or 20-inch-wide seats in coach, but not so wide that the airlines can squeeze in an additional seat per row by shrinking the seat width.
That's what the airlines did with the 787. Boeing designed it for eight 18.5-inch seats per row, but most airlines choose to configure it at nine 17-inch-wide seats per row because, well, they pretty much hate their customers.
Airlines especially hate us when we're flying coach on a 737 for six hours. I guess 17 inches of width in coach seems like plenty to an airline exec who sits in first class.