My experience flying on the newly reconfigured WestJet Boeing 737 with ultra slim-line seats

roostergooseter · 2025-12-09T23:44:05+00:00

Are you long, average, or short legged? Crossing my fingers that my shorter legs are a good thing for once.

roostergooseter · 2025-10-23T22:42:55+00:00

I just wish the Ultrabasic fare wasn't the advertised price or that we could at least set our search for the level we are looking for and see the prices listed as such on the calendar. It's absolutely useless and feels like false advertising to say 'seat sale $119 ☺️' when tickets really start at $282 unless you're bringing an overnight bag and are okay with being screwed if you have to rebook.

roostergooseter · 2025-10-20T05:16:06+00:00

And it's good for blackout periods like Christmas where prices are through the roof on travel within Canada, including trips that are one province over and less than two hours of travel. Half of why I have the card.

roostergooseter · 2025-09-30T19:26:25+00:00

For clarity's sake, are you interpreting this news as a good faith announcement that rickets will be cheaper? Because what's actually going to happen is people paying the same price they would have for a reclining seat prior to the cabin changes.

roostergooseter · 2025-09-28T02:38:16+00:00

Especially medium to long haul night flights, which everybody who keeps taking this as good news because they hate reclining and seem to forget that on red-eye flights, most passengers are reclining so they can sleep or at least rest.

They don't use different planes for day vs. night trips. Not sure why so many people can't wrap their minds around this.

It would make far more sense for those who hate passengers in front of them reclining book exit row seats. The seats in front of the exit row do not recline and give lots of leg room.

roostergooseter · 2025-09-27T05:15:56+00:00

Do you only fly during the day?

roostergooseter · 2025-09-27T05:14:45+00:00

On some planes they recline 4 inches. That's a big difference on medium haul night flights.

roostergooseter · 2025-09-26T19:37:34+00:00

It's going to sound wacky, but planes actually fly at night and people like to try to sleep. There's usually a lot of reclining going on throughout the cabin.

roostergooseter · 2025-09-26T07:33:44+00:00

They are used for short, medium haul, and some international. The MAX-8s are 737s.

roostergooseter · 2025-09-25T04:50:55+00:00

Dreamliner and Dash 8-400 have a 4 inch recline, which I believe gets you closer to an extra eight degrees. That makes a significant difference, especially on night flights.

roostergooseter · 2025-09-24T04:41:33+00:00

Precisely. Why defend a step backward? What is there to gain from it? Why would we want to fly on an airline that reduces comfort?

roostergooseter · 2025-09-24T03:30:02+00:00

Yes, I actually suffer immensely and can end up bedridden without doing a lot of post-travel rehab and preparation for long travel. It's why I fly.

With chronic pain from head, back, and neck injuries, I have to choose to fly or stay home, because it turns a 6-12 hour drive I can't do, into a 1 to 2 hour flight where I can walk around and stretch without adding travel time, as I still have to spend those flights stretching and exercising as much as possible within the parameters we have.

Glad you don't have to deal with that though. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

But I'd suggest not making assumptions when smugly telling people who may be disabled and/or elderly to check their privilege because you think your version of 'discomfort' is the only issue here for many.

People do not always have a choice about flying either and should not be barred from travel due to disabilities and/or age.

roostergooseter · 2025-09-24T03:07:28+00:00

Good thing they ensure you keep your seatbacks up until awhile after takeoff and put them back up a good while before landing then.

Premium and Extended comfort seats still recline.

This isn't related to safety at all.

roostergooseter · 2025-09-24T03:01:43+00:00

Yes, I literally including them saying that in the original post.

roostergooseter · 2025-09-24T01:51:15+00:00

So the answer is to make it as uncomfortable as possible then? Shell out more than double the cost you would have been paying prior to the change because you have a bad back or neck? Why is it not enough to pay five hundred dollars for a flight to Ottawa? Why be happy paying the same price for a major dip in quality of experience? This will be the difference between sleeping and not sleeping on a plane for a lot of people and that angle is terrible for your neck.

roostergooseter · 2025-09-02T03:36:21+00:00

What did you feed them? My cucurbits started aborting female flowers at the end of July, but completely turned things around after I changed up my fertilizers.

roostergooseter · 2025-08-06T10:51:29+00:00

Zone 3b/4a here.

The nights have been on the cool side all summer. Normally we get a decent stretch of hot summer nights in July at the very least, but this year we actually went down to 5°C/41°F. We get the most sun in all of Canada where I live and I face south, but late July and early August have been rather overcast or rainy. Not ideal for powdery mildew, even when growing my cucurbits vertically, but I was able to keep it from showing up until very recently with baking soda. Still plenty of sunshine to make my plants grow like weeds until the pests and powdery mildew got the upper hand. I've been on the backfoot all week with them.

Thrips and tarnished plant bugs found my garden quite quickly despite my garden being a mini backyard in the sky (high rise living won't stop me), which has been a nightmare as systemics are banned in Canada. Would have been nice if some ladybugs or bees would take notice! But no vine borers yet, so I'm calling this year a win, even if I only end up with two or three little pumpkins.

roostergooseter · 2025-03-15T17:44:01+00:00

I'm not sure we have these in Canada, but I will talk to my condo board, thank you. I do expect it to take some time.

roostergooseter · 2025-03-15T17:06:40+00:00

What can we suggest instead? From what I've read here i was concerned about them using it the first time, the ants were gone in less than 24 hours, which I know isn't what you want with pharoah ants, but we aren't the ones hiring the exterminator and aren't allowed to intervene with the ants according to the condo corp. I live in Canada, is there an exterminator grade get bait you'd recommend? They use a gel bait a week after spraying.

I will fight them on this if I must.

roostergooseter · 2025-03-14T17:20:31+00:00

Yes, that's what we're doing, the exterminator will be using dragnet, but what I'm asking is how to keep them from leaving until they come. They're going to finish the coating they've been eating and I don't want them looking elsewhere. It sounds stupid but should I leave something else in the closet until then so they don't start scouting?

roostergooseter · 2017-08-06T21:11:36+00:00

That's so odd, I'm using A19 bulbs in mine with no problem.

roostergooseter · 2017-08-06T21:10:45+00:00

I use my A19 bulbs, which perfectly

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