{"id":371961,"date":"2026-02-19T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-much-bigger-premium-economy-seats-economy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:00:17","slug":"heres-how-much-bigger-premium-economy-seats-are-compared-to-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=371961","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s How Much Bigger Premium Economy Seats Are Compared To Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most airlines follow reasonably accepted standards for <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255961\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/premium-economy\/\"  >premium economy<\/a><\/span> and economy class fares for long-haul routes, although there is variance by airline, aircraft type, and whether the cabin class is being updated in that particular airline. Contrary to what many articles may imply, there is essentially no scope for airlines to offer economy passengers wider seats in the sense of passengers being more spread out. However, they can offer more spread-out passenger seating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premium economy seats are designed to be comfortable for passengers without the luxury of business class.<\/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":[396,476,995,565,3183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-boeing-787","category-delta-air-lines","category-economy-class"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371961","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=371961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371962,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371961\/revisions\/371962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}