I was boarding the flight from Las Vegas to Dallas looking forward to a normal flight.
But then I had the ‘pleasure’ of sitting in seat 10A on the American Airlines A321.
This seat is not only a window seat – without a window – but it is also at least 3 inches narrower and off center to what it should be.
So how is that possible?
Well, let me show you.
This seat is positioned overlapping with the emergency exit, which I would think is not exactly the best for rapid exiting when needed.
Then because of some construction quirk the seat is about 3 and a half inches in from the wall of the plane.
This results in a really narrow seat. I struggled to fit my arms on the 2 armrests it is so narrow.
And then the middle seat 10B is also slightly smaller than it should be. You can see how the armrest is not in line with the row in front. A second seat compromised.
Sitting in this row is a big compromise.
Looking at the setup from row 8 which is at the front of this section it seems they decided to squash an extra row into this section.
I would think that seat 10A should not be there. Seats 10B and 10C could be there in their normal positions and then there would be that extra space at the emergency exit that is not compromised by seat 10A.
Seat 10F is reversed and the air steward normally sits there. 10A could also be reversed and then it wouldn’t be so squashed and would interfere less with egress if needed.
That was my experience with seat 10A on the American Airlines A321. I will do everything I can not to sit in it again.
