FROM TODAY passengers flying with Delta can buy seats in the airline’s premium-economy cabin. These “Economy Comfort” tickets, whose name we have sniggered at previously, are available on certain international flights departing from next month.
For between $80 and $160 each way you get four more inches of legroom, a bit more recline (so that you can still squash the legs of the person behind, despite the added legroom), early boarding, and complimentary beer, wine and spirits. Diamond or Platinum-level member of Delta's loyalty programme, SkyMiles, will have any international economy-class tickets upgraded to Economy Comfort.
Decisions about whether to upgrade will be based on the legroom and the recline, since the seats themselves are the same as you'll find at the back of the plane. Early boarding is not much of a lure on an international flight with allocated seats. And free booze is a nice idea, but invariably less relevant in reality. But if the marginally roomier surrounds of Economy Comfort really do allow you to sleep/rest/work better than before, then another $80 extra spent on an eight-hour flight starts to look like a sensible investment.
The Economist, May 9th 2011, 17:08 by A.B.
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