Northwest Boeing 757-200 OW
jason| May 7, 2008 6:05 amI’ve been meaning to put this up for over a week now…
I had the opportunity to experience a new first class configuration on a newer Northwest Boeing 757-200 OW on one of my flights back from Boston recently. This was the second time I had seen this plane; it was substituted for our scheduled aircraft in both situations.
The first class cabin is completely reconfigured with the seats almost double spaced. While sitting down you cannot touch the seat in front of you with your hands or legs without getting up. The seats themselves are more la-Z-Boy style with four points of adjustment. Besides the standard overhead lights, there is a lamp connected to the seat for reading. Because the seats are spaced so far apart, the trays all fold out of the left arm and can be used either folded in half to the left side or fully unfolded and turned out in front of you. There is a universal power plug on the left by your leg that appeared to support both American and European style plugs. On the right side is a special plug to be used with a multimedia device available upon request. I didn’t request one, so I’m not sure what this looks like or what you can do with it. There is a bracket that folds out of the right arm rest to hold the device. The seats fully recline, almost into a bed-like configuration. I was sleeping with the seat all the way back during landing–whether this is now allowed with these planes or the stewardess simply couldn’t wake me up to make me put my seat up I cannot say.
The coach cabin has more modest updates and seemed mostly the same other than perhaps more comfortable chairs.
I took pictures of as much as I could. Forgive the quality–it was a crappy camera phone. Click any of the pictures below to see the rest of the gallery.
