The New Boeing 777

I did a little research on airplane seat sizes today. It seems, the average seat size is 17.2 inches with a 31 to 32 inch seat pitch. (The pitch determines how much leg room a person has.) Yikes that's small.

The new Boeing 777 has been built with an additional 5 inches to the planes width. The additional 5 inches allows the seats to go from 17.2 inches to 18.5 inches. Hey that 1.3 inches doesn't sound like a lot but it makes a big difference!

The only downside is that it is the actual airline and not the maker of the airplane that determine how wide they want their seats to be. Of course, their main concern is money.

Having said that, here are the airlines with the widest seats:

• Midwest Express - 21 inches wide (woo hoo!)


• United - they have recently increased seat size on some of their 727's and 777's.

Anyway, that's what I've found out so far. Stay tuned.