Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: news From: Christopher Davis Subject: Re: The Sporty Game -- Boeing 757 X-Submission-Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 13:52:26 -0500 References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM X-Submission-Message-Id: <199212021852.AA09487@loiosh.eff.org> Date: 02 Dec 92 13:18:57 PST RJ> == Robert Jacobson RJ> As a frequent air traveler, I find the 757 to be positively the RJ> most uncomfortable aircraft now flying. One can begin with the RJ> ubiquitous TV monitors hanging from the ceilings every few rows, RJ> which cannot be dimmed or turned off even on a red-eye, and RJ> progress to the remarkable number of seats that can be squeezed RJ> into row upon row of stifled passengers. It may be a technical RJ> feat, but I know instruct my travel agent to pass on any flight RJ> requiring me to take a 757. Yeck. What airlines are you flying? The 757's monitors *are* turned off on most of the flights I've seen (except for the coast-to-coast nonstops, where they're on for the movie and/or the "video magazine"). The seat pitch seems to be better than the predecessor 727-200s usually have (especially if you get the right seats; the NW 757s have four large doors per side instead of 3 large doors and two overwing exits, making for a number of seats with immense legroom). The 757 isn't a widebody, but (to me anyway) it has many of the best features of widebodies (it only lacks the second aisle for use in getting around meal carts :). (What aircraft *are* you flying on, if you're not on 757s?)