Look at picture number three and tell me how "Another major advantage: the passenger in the window seat can get to the aisle without the other two getting up." ?

Your still shoehorned in, there's just less chance that Sleeping Joe is going to fall over and drool in your lap before you get to Copenhagen.

These seats will make it hard to stretch out over three seats to sleep - when space is available. I was really hoping for seats with charcoal filters to deal with passengers with gas problems.

Tell charlie white that if he doesnt have something nice to say, shut the !@#$ up!!!

Yeah, why would a serious news organization publish an article that was chock-full of gratuitous sneers and insults? Oh, wait -- this is DVice!

I'm always excited to see new developments in air travel comfort. I wonder how long it will be before I ever get to sit on a plane with this seating configuration though. Even if they roll it out tomorrow, theres still a fleet of aging planes that I'm more likely to get a seat on.

Don't take much comfort in the news that Delta is the first in line to install these newfangled seats in some of their planes. Here's a news clip.

Updated from 8:44 a.m. EDT, April 23, 08

" ... Delta Air Lines ... reported an adjusted $274 million first-quarter loss and missed analysts' expectations for the period.

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After factoring in special items, Delta lost nearly $6.4 billion, which included a $6.1 billion noncash goodwill impairment charge ..."

If you're not going to be around, it's easy to install fancy seats, I suppose.

Tan ones look better - the orange ones will provide a new avenue for kids in the row behind to bother someone. The design will also allow more noise intrusion from conversations in the adjacent rows.

From a social perspective, this design seems to work best for single travellers. For two or more people who wish to socialize or work together, it will be much more awkward to interact. Hopefully at least some of the standard seating will remain in each plane.

Does anyone know if there's more hip room due to having passengers' hips staggered this way?

will Continental follow too? or we will have to flight Delta for this new feature.

Now they came up with a new type of seat to make the cabin seating more screwed upthese engineers come up with give odds they never got down on ther bells and tried to install them, when they design them they never think how to make it easier to install them to the flooe for the mechanic doing the work, when the mount on the floor 18 inch apart, and getting to the Emergency Exits, look good on a a Mok up, it's hard enough with the seats they have now, Now putting off set seat in, these Engineers and Exec never talk to the mechanic who install these, some are lines are down to 29" pitch to get the great mighty DOLLAR, the seats are getting skinny too so you need to be 150 pounds or less to fly and 4 foot tall to fly, they never think if a person has long legs, or a bigger waist. they will just put them in the cargo compartment

Yes, no more snoring obese guys falling into my lap on long-haul flights!

Hey kwilde54, next time you post a comment, run it through a gibberish-to-English translator first, okay?

as Sceptic said, this will not make it any easier for the window passenger to get out without the other passengers getting up too.

And the seat reclines how?? These will make Business and First Class my choice.

Hey kwilde54 it's called punctuation you monkey spank!

People kill me...some people would find a way to complain about free money that someone just gave them.

Here's a little tidbit for your childish reference to Northwest.

It has had the FIRST fully flat business class seat of any major US carrier. It leads ALL major US carriers over the last decade in ranking highest for DOT performance (based on what is most important to passengers, ON TIME, WITH BAGS, Least complaints).

Moreover, It has historically maintained the highest revenue per seat mile (prior and after it's fake pre merger bankruptcy).

Any service complaint you have should be lobbed at the ruthless thieves and hedge funds that took it over and stripped it of all extra cash for Senior management bonuses.

I know lots of highly professional people at NW that run rings around other carriers.

Obviously others like it as it runs the HIGHEST load factors of all major US carriers. The joke's on your silly immature comment

This is great. I hope this is a hit so all of my friends dont think im an idiot for saying that Delta's better. They call delta Dont ever leave the airport, but really delta has a better on time rating than american does and so on and so forth.