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I'll go against the grain and say that, to me, it definitely matters. Give me a wide-body any day. I like the two aisles, the additional space by the bathrooms, and (on some planes at least) the fact that you're never more than one seat away from an aisle. Personally, anything longer than about 4 hours on a narrow-body is too long . . . and if it's a 757, anything period is too long. (Those are my least-favorite planes; they're just too narrow.)
In the not-too-distant past (early 1990s), United and USAir ran widebodies (DC-10s and 767s, respectively) on the transcontinental run between Philadelphia and San Francisco. Heck, even into the mid 2000s, United ran 767s from Baltimore to Denver. That was really nice! Sadly, all you can get is narrow-bodies now.
In the not-too-distant past (early 1990s), United and USAir ran widebodies (DC-10s and 767s, respectively) on the transcontinental run between Philadelphia and San Francisco. Heck, even into the mid 2000s, United ran 767s from Baltimore to Denver. That was really nice! Sadly, all you can get is narrow-bodies now.
If you pick your flights carefully, you can get some wide bodies. United runs 787s back and forth between Denver-Houston a few times a day, and even in the 2010s, American had a flight or two per day between DFW and Miami on 777s. A few years ago Delta used to operate 767s and 777s between Atlanta and their west coast hubs a few flights per day; not sure if they still do. Some of these were / are positioning of these wide-bodies for international hops.
The Canadian budget airline WestJet is planning on using the 737 for their Calgary-Dublin route, with a stop at St. John's, Newfoundland for refueling and the odd additional passenger. I'm just of an architecture geek to be disappointed they aren't going to use Gander to refuel because it's an interesting place that's supposed to be well-preserved from the time when all the transatlantic flights had to refuel there.
Delta uses a 757 for seasonal Pittsburgh-Paris route. We're booked on one later this summer because I futzed around too long trying to figure out flight dates, and Economy Comfort got sold out on my first choice flight (CDG-ATL afternoon flight) for getting back home, and both spouse and I are leggy enough we can really use that Economy Comfort space.
Well we are flying the 757 to ewr this June which is 3,100 miles.
But the st johns one would be interesting and weird.
I flew with Continental (United) from Oslo to Newark 5-6 years ago. I believe they used a 757-200. It was awful. SAS is actually cheaper and offer better service. They use an A330-300. The larger plane with two aisles make such a difference.
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