Our family is planning a trip to Ireland in Summer. As we look for flights, I cant help but notice that pretty much all of them are on smaller jets such as 737’s and A320 derivatives. That is highly disappointing. The last time I made that trip was on a twin aisle 767 there and twin aisle A330 coming back. Flying on a 737 was bad enough all the way back from California to Florida. I am having a hard time imagining this all the way across the Atlantic for 8 hours. ETOPS is cool until you have to be on a smaller plane.
Unless you fly first class on a 767 now, the leg room isn’t any better than the 737. We took a trip to Ireland this past August, and the room between the seat rows was the air travel version of foot binding.
dave boling
I’ve been flying between the US and Ireland a couple times a year for 13 years now, and the single aisle feels like the norm at this point. Depends on the carrier, and since I’m usually flying to/from Boston it’s one of the shortest transatlantic routes you can do, so YMMV.
It’s not the most comfortable way to fly, and at 6’ tall I like it a lot less than my 5’1” wife. But I’ll say this: the cost of flying back and forth has also come down tremendously in that time. My flight home for Thanksgiving was $420 round trip! So it’s a tradeoff that, at least for me, has been worth it.
Thanks for the replies. I must admit, when I went the first time I had the incredible fortune to fly first class (was on a standby ticket) and so the trip over was wonderful, but noticed that the twin gives the added flexibility to do some walking up and down the aisle to get your legs and back stretched a bit, whereas the single aisle is a bit more obtrusive I think. Yes, I know- that’s a minor detail. The fact that even as a shorter legged person, on a 737 I feel like my knees are in the back of the seat ahead of me and it’s always an overnight flight going East.