Regarding their Seating I Beleive (only an opinion and not fact) that EK will have 2 Class seating with Y class being 10 abreast just like their 300ER’s which are making so much money for them (with over 400 PAX ) . The EK Y class at 10 abreast gives 17 inch width with 34 inch seat pitch although they might like to go for a more comfortable Y class for Longer routes and choose to go 9 abreast with a 18 inch seat seat width although the economies of a 10 Abreast 777 are not something just letting go off !

Delta – will reveive their’s in Jan 2007

Ah. So no First Class on Emirates Worldliner?

Also: the 17 inch width and 2 inch armrests for 10 abreast gives 59 inch triple seats in the sides, 78 inch 4-seat block in the middle, 2 17-inch aisles.. totalling 230 inches, which can be found in 777. Now do the computation for 11 abreast… 5-seat block in the middle would be 97 inches, adding the 59-inch side blocks and 17 inch aisles should give 249 inches.

Which airliner has 249 inches width on main deck? Emirates has bought a plenty of them… suitable to carry coolies or backpackers…

I know this threads concerns the aircraft’s interior – but no one has come up with a pic of the exterior.

Roger Smith.

An example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sud-Est_Armagnac.jpg

Observe that, as can be seen from the interior image as well, the windows are few and far between. There are wall seats, even though the pitch is presumably generous.

I don’t think anybody ever flew long haul in that one .The DH 66 possibly a different matter.

http://www.imperial-airways.com/De_havilland_dh66_hercules.html

845 km range, 177 km/h cruise speed. Sounds like under 5 hour endurance.

Perhaps they weren’t bunks, but Air France weren’t able to introduce transverse hammocks.

Still it’s only a matter of time before the Low Cost airlines take up hammocks… 😀

There are planes now flying that accommodate three tiers of sleeper bunks. Let´s hope none of us has the misfortune to need to fly there:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1047546/L/

Aircraft with more than 30 passenger seats that fail to meet the ditching standards of the certification requirements must not be more than 120 minutes cruise or 400nm from ‘land suitable for making an emergency landing’ (non ETOPS)

What are the ditching requirements like? How well do the modern jets with high approach speed and high-bypass underwing turbofans perform when forced to ditch? Or what about modern commercial turboprops?

I think i can answer that one.

It appeared to me that forward of the wing exit (row 15 i think), the window alignment was terrible – the window came was postioned so that it was mostly obscured by the seat back. But where I was sitting, rear of the exit row (row 18), there was a window, a very large one, for each row.

Sounds like DC-8. Very large windows – 36 cm wide, much wider than the B787 Dreamliner windows, which are only 28 cm wide. But window pitch 1016 mm, meaning that many airlines had 40 inches legroom in Coach just as in First Class.

As for headroom, see

http://www.embraercommercialjets.com/english/content/ejets/emb_195.asp?tela=cross_section

144 cm under bins.
Compare to B737:
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/airports/acaps/737sec2.pdf
page 58

158 cm under bins

or A318
http://www.content.airbusworld.com/SITES/Technical_Data/docs/AC/DATA_CONSULT/AC_A318.pdf
page 22

159 cm under bins.