Seeing United go back to a classic reverse herringbone for Polaris is honestly pretty telling. Two seat types. Window or middle. No awkward aisle-facing seats. No guessing which ones suck. Just clean and predictable.
That makes Lufthansa’s timing with Allegris feel… odd. They’re finally rolling out this super complex zigzag layout right as United seems to be backing away from the same idea. And let’s be real, in those zigzag cabins a solid chunk of passengers end up with objectively worse seats, especially the ones staring straight into the aisle.
If United looked at customer feedback and said “yeah, this isn’t worth it,” that doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in Allegris long term. Especially when United managed to keep the same seat count on the 787-9 without the complexity.
Feels like Lufthansa engineered a solution to a problem most passengers never asked for, just as others are simplifying again.
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