The seat faces forward for take-off and landing. There is limited legroom but with plenty of knee room in this position. Other than take-off and landing, there does not seem much point in the forward-facing position. All the other features of the seat are best used when the seat is swivelled.
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There is a pop-out coat hook to hang your jacket when you first arrive while waiting to hand it to an attendant, or on landing after being handed it back. There is also a hook on the seat wall to hang the headphones so you don't need to stuff them into a cubby or have them loose on the tray table or shelf.
It's too bad I don't get to experience the cool international planes with all my domestic and central american hops. Oh well, I do plan on hitting Europe this year so we'll see.
I found your site on adalada and I like the concept. If you want to do a link swap, I'd be up for it. My site is "Streets of Lima" and the page is: http://streetsofperu.blogspot.com/
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Cheers,
Ben
I've flown to Europe three times in Economy, then I went to Hong Kong on Business (upgraded with miles + $ through continental)
Now its extremely hard to think about going on long hauls in Economy.....wife had to go to Europe and she asked me about getting her upgraded (there were no seats available for that so she had to be on 'the outside looking in' as she was in the first Economy row (where she could see people in Business class)
When I go to europe next year I'll definitely be flying BF with continental.
the problem with me is that now everytime I am not upgraded (happened only once in 25 legs this year) I feel depressed , specially since the very leg where I was not upgraded I ended up next to a baby and her annoying mother who kept going back and forth while I was trying to survive a terrible hungover