I've never in my life seen a human-sized seat in Coach (in terms of width). I'd love to speak with my wallet for 2x2 seating on narrowbodies, but the asking price isn't reasonable -- typically 5x the price for business class, for less than double the space.
I still can't believe we don't have a "get your own armrest class" option with minimal additional legroom for (say) 50-75% extra cost.
Orders of magnitude increases in cost will never be acceptable to the average person, or even the spending-their-own-money 5%.
I travel for a profitable business, and there's no way in hell they're paying 5x extra for us plebes to have a little extra comfort. I imagine only executives and the consultant class get away with it.
I find Delta's Comfort+, Virgin's Premium Economy, and JetBlue's EvenMoreSpace to be quite a good compromise of price vs space. None are "private arm rest", but all are quite good fore and aft and my weight in lbs nearly overflows a uint8 and I'm comfortable side-to-side.
Comfort+ seems to be $99/way on trans-Atlantic and JetBlue's are $30-60 per leg on most flights.
I'm a (low) executive who probably could fly business class more (in the sense that our travel policy doesn't prevent it), but I choose not to as it's not a good use of shareholder funds. I only do it if it's <~$200 more or if I'm flying and going directly from the airport into a critical meeting. Routine travel and I'm fine in coach.
Can confirm, Delta's Comfort+ is "good enough" and depending on the aircraft United's EconomyPlus can be good enough, although I feel really sorry for the people who pay extra for EconomyPlus on those ERJ's. LOL. What a rip off.
6'5" @ 230 EconomyPlus on an ERJ gets you access to the bulkhead rows. Just wrapped 40 weeks of IAH-DSM on ancient ERJ's still sporting Continental cabin parts.
Yeah, have absolutely no need for a lie flat bed. Just "your own armrest" which I haven't really seen on many carriers, at least not domestic. I'm trying to swing Premium Economy on Lufthansa which looks nice, except I made the mistake of booking through United, so neither airline will take my money for an upgrade. sigh. Air NZ also has a good premium economy. That's all I ask. Sadly most domestic carriers only offer more legroom, which I don't much care about.
I still can't believe we don't have a "get your own armrest class" option with minimal additional legroom for (say) 50-75% extra cost.
Orders of magnitude increases in cost will never be acceptable to the average person, or even the spending-their-own-money 5%.
I travel for a profitable business, and there's no way in hell they're paying 5x extra for us plebes to have a little extra comfort. I imagine only executives and the consultant class get away with it.