Originally Posted by
thezorbster
It said in the paper that they fit 87 more seats into the airbus 330 than a regular airline. That's a hell of a lot more seats - the paper said it equates to about 7cm of leg room. I honestly don't think I could travel long haul with them, even if they are cheap. Probably ok for an internal Asian flight but flights are hell anyway without being totally cramped.
It isn't that many more seats - A330s are typically (in economy) decked out as 2x4x2 so 87 seats is another 11 rows of economy (less one seat - probably emergency exit or galley related). With a reasonable biz class row equalling 2.5 rows of economy seating you could just get rid of 4 and a bit rows of biz class seats on a typical A330 layout or squeeze the biz seats up a bit (which would be expected as low cost biz won't be as plush as full service biz and won't have as many customers) to provide the room for the extra economy seats without actually squeezing anyone else up at all!