Airbus A340-300 (343)

ZRH-SEZ-ZRH, very impressed with Edelweiss. Recently updated, really nice cabin with pleasant colours. Sufficiently spacious new seats and good infotainment system. Food was very good, actually one of the best I have experienced in the economy class, especially the dark bread, wow! Oh, and the price for the direct flight to Seychelles was unbeatable too (less than EUR 400), most Swiss flights within Europe are more expensive than this 10 h flight. Also very good schedule with the arrival in the morning both ways. I am a fan! Edelweiss is way better than Swiss, its parent company.

The seat is missing one of the two windows due to the air conditioning duct so you have to turn your head really hard to look outside. The seat itself is a bit narrow but perfectly fine for me. The seat itself, entertainment and service was very good, nothing to complain about.

Flew CPT-ZRH on this A343 (flight WK85), and it was a total disaster. First of all, WK has an awful website. I was unable to check-in online, process failed without any explanation. Swiss website didn't help me too, even though I tried to check-in several times. My hopes to pick a window seat were destroyed and I ended up with aisle seat. Second, economy seats on this A343 are generic Recaro seats (which becomes more and more widespread these days, especially on new B787s) and I have to say that they are very bad - just 17" wide between armrests (it's ridiculous, because A340/330 can accomodade up to 18.3" seatwidth in 2-4-2 layout and I know it exactly !!!), hard and uncomfortable. Third, WK is very greedy with seat pitch - it is ridiculously small, like in LCC narrowbodies. I'm 5'8" and slim person and I felt very cramped in every dimension in this seat. Aisle seat are especially bad because you can't lean to the aisle - the aisles are narrow and you'll be bumped constantly by the passing FA's and passengers. Window seat have 4" gap between the seat and the wall and are considerably better in terms of personal space. Fourth, the meal service is very bad and poor. I can only appreciate vegetables from the hot meal and ice-cream. Everything else is tasteless and disgusting. At the end of the flight I was hungry. From the positive side, FA's were polite and the flight was on-time. Everything else was bad. WK spoiled my vacations in Capetown and refused to give me any compensation. My recommendation: stay away from this airline as far as possible. I deeply regret not choosing Turkish Airlines for this trip - they are 4 heads ahead of WK in every aspect and would be significantly cheaper.

Seats 2D-2E. In fact we had the whole middle row 2 for ourselves which meant that my wife could sleep as if in bed for most of the journey from Zurich to Las Vegas. Great legroom, very good food. Quiet ride as we were at the very front of the cabin. Absoluterly worth the extra money.

Bad seat. At row 39 and behind the b seats are at a slight angle. Considerable less leg room for right leg than other seats.

Seat 42J is on the first row where the center seats are three instead of four making the aisle generously wide here which I liked. Seats new, food great, good flight.

This airplane is newly refurbished, it looks like new. They have a great variety of movies, big screen, easy to use. Appreciated the good service and the excellent food!