Today I travelled from Dorchester on a 444. Usually I am travelling from Axminster on a 159. The latter's second class legroom is barely adequate (I am 1m 77cm tall) except some seating has slightly better seating legroom, a couple of cms more, if you can only remember where those ones are and they are still free!
The class 444 seating is simply magnificent in this respect, up to German standards, and I wonder how SWT got away with providing worse seating in the 159s (and 158s I assume) than the 444s? I didn't notice that they charge lower fare per km on those!
Are there standards for this sort of thing? Also the luggage racks on the 444s take a standard airline spec suitcase (that you can take as hand luggage on easyJet free of charge) with ease, whereas it's a squeeze and a bit of an overhang on the 159s.
Now it's SWR, I wonder what we can expect with the 442s. of which I have no experience.
The class 444 seating is simply magnificent in this respect, up to German standards, and I wonder how SWT got away with providing worse seating in the 159s (and 158s I assume) than the 444s? I didn't notice that they charge lower fare per km on those!
Are there standards for this sort of thing? Also the luggage racks on the 444s take a standard airline spec suitcase (that you can take as hand luggage on easyJet free of charge) with ease, whereas it's a squeeze and a bit of an overhang on the 159s.
Now it's SWR, I wonder what we can expect with the 442s. of which I have no experience.
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