ANCFlyer wrote:If you've ever read anything I posted on this site, I simply don't fly coach. Booze, hap-hazard food notwithstanding, I fly F for the room, and the easy on/off, no sill-assed baggage fee.
Will be in F on AS to ANC next week. Expect nothing more except more seat, first on, first off.
Mrs. ANC flew F ORD-DFW-BHM last week on AA. Same, same. Seat, on, off.
Interestingly enough, last year flew AA from ORD-HNL/HNL-ORD and did so in Premium Economy and found significant difference between domestic F and this trip in PE on AA.
Followup on this . . . AS 1A wasn't so bad in 3/6. Decent service, seat, drinks, et al. To note, didn't have a problem with leg room even in the bulkhead. Food/Beverage service was (COVID) truncated, but otherwise not too bad. I was on a 739 each time . . .
Now to reflect on two experiences in F in the last year . . . ORD-DFW/DFW-ORD on an AA 788. The first class pods are exactly as PA110 mentioned above. Hard, narrow, impossible to figure out, too many non-essential gizmos and gadgets . . . give me old school - which is why my ORD-HNL/HNL-ORD non-stop was in Premium Econ . . . better seat all the way.
Now, on the bulkhead seats. Before VX demise at the hands of AS, their seat pitch in front was 55" on the A320. Stretching my legs straight out, I could not touch the bulkhead (there' a pic in here on a trip report I made). Sadly AS dumbed that down to 44" now. I still pick the bulkhead, every time. No surprises from a reclining seat in front of me and no blad spot from that pax either.
LET'S GO BRANDON!!!!