Delta Hopes You'll Pay to Stretch Out with Domestic 'Economy Comfort' Seating
Last summer Delta introduced a new option to help you stretch out on those long-haul international flights, and now it looks like they’re bringing the option to domestic flights as well. Clearly they must like the extra revenue that the seats bring in, so they’re expanding their Economy Comfort options to pretty much all their planes. If it’s not the money they’re interested in it must be the fact that the competition already does something similar—cough—United Airlines and Economy Plus.
In total Delta will be updating like 800 of their planes, which includes pretty much all of their mainline planes as well as all of their regional jets configured with a two-class seating plan. If you snag one of these new seats you’ll be enjoying priority boarding, but more importantly it’ll give you a few more inches of legroom and a little more than 34” inches of seat pitch.
Unfortunately all that legroom is going to come at a price, and it all depends on where you’re going and how long it takes to get there. One-way fees vary between $19 and $99, and we’re thinking that Los Angeles to New York probably falls closer to that $100 price tag. The only thing we want to know for now is if the upgraded seating comes with free booze—‘cause that’s how it works on the international flights with Economy Comfort.
The airline’s frequent flyers will get free access to better seats depending on their status with the airline, but for the rest of us it’s going to be a pay to play option. Legroom is certainly pretty valuable—especially all the way across the country—but we think we’ll resist the option to upgrade. Although we’re sure the check-in kiosk will try to persuade us otherwise.
[Photo of their international Economy Comfort option: Delta]
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