Adding Seats to A321s?

[USFlyer]

It was announced on the earnings call that US is adding seats to the A321s. If I heard this correctly, then how? Is there any spare room to add more seats?

 

[N924PS]

It was announced on the earnings call that US is adding seats to the A321s. If I heard this correctly, then how? Is there any spare room to add more seats?

You heard correctly. They are adding one row, two seats each side, installed where passengers and crewmembers have been enjoying the open space around Row 22. The location is by the L3/R3 doors.

I am 6 feet tall and not a person of size and I can barely squeeze into the seat. And the best part is they are PREMIUM seats. The customers will love them, if they are Munchkins or MIdgets.

16F/171Y. Work in progress on A321's to be completed by next summer.

 

[Keroseneuser]

You heard correctly. They are adding one row, two seats each side, installed where passengers and crewmembers have been enjoying the open space around Row 22. The location is by the L3/R3 doors.

I am 6 feet tall and not a person of size and I can barely squeeze into the seat. And the best part is they are PREMIUM seats. The customers will love them, if they are Munchkins or MIdgets.

16F/171Y. Work in progress on A321's to be completed by next summer.

I hear ewoks are already lining up to pop the extra bucks for the new seats! 🙂

 

[Dont call me Shirley]

I hear ewoks are already lining up to pop the extra bucks for the new seats! 🙂

"Surely" they'll be labeled "choice" seats. Amazing they can be shoehorned in there and still comply with exit row pitch requirements.

 

[737823]

Actually the A321s are some of the best aircraft USAir has in my experience. I flew on one of the newer builds to CLT sometime last year and thought it was adequate, nothing amazing but a clean, functional, modern aircraft with several great exit row seats.

Josh

 

[Keroseneuser]

Actually the A321s are some of the best aircraft USAir has in my experience. I flew on one of the newer builds to CLT sometime last year and thought it was adequate, nothing amazing but a clean, functional, modern aircraft with several great exit row seats.

Josh

That was prior to adding the seats to them. i have not flown one that had them yet, not that I know of anyhow. Interested to see how they stuffed them in there given the placement of the emergency doors.

 

[nycbusdriver]

I hear ewoks are already lining up to pop the extra bucks for the new seats! 🙂

Ewoks, AND double-below-the-knee amputees.

 

[nycbusdriver]

Actually the A321s are some of the best aircraft USAir has in my experience. I flew on one of the newer builds to CLT sometime last year and thought it was adequate, nothing amazing but a clean, functional, modern aircraft with several great exit row seats.

Josh

You are correct. The A321s are amazing, efficient aircraft when they are used and configured in the manner for which they were designed. But Tempe keeps running past the 10-spot lying on the sidewalk to pick up the nickel in the gutter.

The 757 is another example of Tempe (and other airlines) insisting on using an aircraft in ways that were never intended, i.e. transatlantic, and giving the passengers a poor travel experience.

 

[dash8roa]

The only good thing about this is that it may help a non-rev get a seat but bad news for the paying customer as the cramped cattle car will be hard to bear.

 

[CLTRob]

The only good thing about this is that it may help a non-rev get a seat but bad news for the paying customer as the cramped cattle car will be hard to bear.

Will the additional seats reduce the pitch between the seats, are the additional seats being installed in space not being used and there is no adjustment to the seats already installed?

 

[cynic]

I sat in one of the existing exit row seats the other day and I have no idea how the new seats will:
A: fit
B: be legal
C: leave room for the flight attendant