Gmonney From Canada, joined Jan 2001, 2153 posts, RR: 26 Posted (11 years 2 months 3 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 674 times:
In November I was on an Air Canada A319 from YYZ - MIA and then a A320 from MIA - YYZ. How come on these aircrafts the window didn't line up with the seats? I could look out two windows but not a great view from either. Does it have something to do with the pitch of the seats? Does this mean that AC has a good pitch? If I can recall, the Charters that I have been on (TS and QN) their windows line up....must be pitch, can anyone help,
L1011 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1530 posts, RR: 12 Reply 1, posted (11 years 2 months 3 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 639 times:
Years ago, seats were lined up with the windows. When airlines started reducing seat pitch, that changed. On planes with large, widely spaced windows, like the DC-8, you could end up with the wall between two windows next to you. Whenever I would fly on a DC-8, I would walk through the cabin, making a note of the seat rows that were lined up with windows. That way, when I got my next seat assignment, I would know what seats to ask for. On current jets with small Boeing-sized windows, even though you get part of two windows, it is uncomfortable when your view is of a post between two windows. You either have to lean back or forward to see out, and that gets uncomfortable after a while. I guess as long as airlines have tight seating, we'll have to live with it.
Redngold From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 6907 posts, RR: 53 Reply 2, posted (11 years 2 months 3 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 624 times:
It has everything to do with seat pitch.
Given the following:
1> The windows on the a/c are exactly 36 inches apart.
2> The seat pitch is 33 inches (for our purposes, even in the first row).
3> The window in the first row is centered between the seatback and the front bulkhead.
Here's the math for you:
33 x 1= 33
36 x 1= 36
33 x 2= 66
36 x 2= 69
33 x 3= 99
36 x 3= 108
33 x 4= 132
36 x 4= 144
33 x 5= 165
36 x 5= 180
33 x 6= 198
36 x 6= 216
33 x 7= 224
36 x 7= 252
33 x 8= 256
36 x 8= 288
33 x 9= 288
This means that you'll have to go through 9 rows before the window lines up with the row as it did when you started in row 1.
This also means that at rows 4 and 5, the windows are more lined up with the seatbacks than anything else.
Rw774477 From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 1003 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (11 years 2 months 3 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 605 times:
is 'window pitch' standard among all Airbus and Boeing a/c
Early Air From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 611 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (11 years 2 months 3 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 577 times:
It is the way the airlines put in their seats. Inorder to use all of the avaliable room they have to doit like that. If the airlines lined the seats up exactly with the windows it would be like this; 1 window each would be to little room, 2 windows each would be too much room. So it's like one and some crazy fraction. Every seat sees the window differently.
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