{"id":244710,"date":"2025-07-01T18:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-delta-united-most-legroom\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:00:17","slug":"american-vs-delta-vs-united-which-carrier-has-the-most-legroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=244710","title":{"rendered":"American Vs. Delta Vs. United: Which Carrier Has The Most Legroom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delta Air Lines, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span>, and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  >American Airlines<\/a><\/span> are the three largest legacy airlines in the United States. All three are full-service carriers operating a mixture of narrowbody and widebody aircraft as well as regional aircraft through their contracts with airlines like SkyWest. According to a study by <a href=\"https:\/\/upgradedpoints.com\/travel\/airlines\/us-airline-legroom-data\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Upgraded Points<\/a>, the US-based airlines offering the most legroom on average are JetBlue, at 32.2 inches, and Southwest Airlines, at 32 inches. Meanwhile, low-cost or ultra-low-cost carriers like Frontier and Spirit Airlines provide their guests with just 28 inches of seat pitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While these figures can vary by aircraft type, overall, Delta Air Lines offers a little more legroom than United and American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,636,565,6645,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-delta-air-lines","category-legroom","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244711,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244710\/revisions\/244711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}