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I have to say I am not a big fan of the 737. At this point, the A320 family feels more comfortable and quieter than the MAXes I've flown in.

I also have a bitter disappointment with a MAX, where I ordered a window seat that ended next to a deactivated door, with a cover panel with no window at all (at least the plug of death has a window).

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Safety issues aside... People say there's an inch here, a few decibels there, but after some time in both the experience in the MAX and the A32X are about the same to me. Both are crowded in economy, and both are loud if you sit in the back. I like the Embraer E-jets for short hops when there's a choice.

I brought this up in another thread, but the floor level is a couple inches lower in the A320 series so the plane feels larger because you (both figuratively and literally) have more headroom, which I personally greatly enjoy.

Legroom is much more important than headroom.

As a passenger I'd love both, thank you. I do find it annoying to have to walk down the center stooped over or with my head turned sideways in smaller planes. I'm not even unusually tall--only 190 cm.

But yes, I do value legroom more than headroom. They don't, however, trade against each other.

You must not be tall, it's a pain to have to turn your head parallel to the ceiling every time you get up

Aren't you sitting down 99.99% of the time and standing up 0.01% of the time? How isn't leg room the hugely primary concern over the ability to stand up?

On a 737, most short people have to as well. I don't really see how any narrow-body could be outfitted 6 seats wide and allow tall people to stand up straight at their seat, and still retain overhead compartments.

+1 . Specifically the SW airlines ones don't allow for me to type on my laptop comfortable, while the other planes in their fleet do. Between that, and the increase in boarding/sitting on tarmac times, I've been avoiding flying and trying to vacation in places I can drive to.

You can't type comfortably on the 737 MAX but you can on the 737 NG? What's the difference in comfort?

Seat configurations probably. They have a team of people that work on tweaking seating configs to allow more seats. Take away 1/2" per row for 100 rows, and you now have 50" of "new" space. Remove X inches in width per seat and Y inches from the aisle(s), and you suddenly get 1 additional set per row. I don't know what actual numbers are, but that's how they play with it.

There is a place in hell reserved for them.

Sadly, replacing the seats for ever thinner ones is much more costly than crushing my legs in economy. Or economy "plus", which is not much better.

I don’t know if it’s a difference between the models or just configuration but I had 2 SWA flights last week. The first was in a MAX with SWA’s newer configuration and seats with very short tray tables. The second flight was on a 738 that had the older leather seats and much deeper tray table. Again unsure if it’s just that the 738 is incompatible with the new seats or they just haven’t updated it yet.

I thought airplane interiors are outfitted for the specific airline. So your issue is with the tray table in a SW 737-MAX-7?/8?/9?, not the MAX in general.

The A320s do seem bigger now that you mention it. On the other hand, I do really enjoy the blue ambient light in the 737 - can’t really explain why, but it’s comforting.

just like the the anti drug injecting lighting of the cinema toilets

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