It seems there is demand from the North of England to the Middle East and beyond within announcement that Emirates is to upscale the route from an Airbus A330-200 to a Boeing 777-300ER
This will be one of Emirates’s Two Class 777-300ER’s, with 42 Business Class Seats and 385 Economy class seats. This adds an extra 2000 seats a week (from the 278 seater Airbus A330-200)
What isn’t mentioned of course is the seating. Whilst up the front it’s a tight 2-3-2 in Business Class, it’s worse down the back – 3-4-3 (or to you and me, 10 across) akin to the Air New Zealand/Air France configurations.
And that going from a comparative relaxed 2-4-2, it’s going be tight down the back of the plane…