Airliners.net Civil Aviation: A350 Cabin Configuration Options

Airliners.net Civil Aviation: A350 Cabin Configuration Options: "The foot and shoulder room increase is more important for window pax on these planes, and the new interior panels look to increase those two figures by more than 3 inches, as the 330/340 have a very MD80 feel by the window in econ due to the higher floor (relative to the cylinder) in these planes than in B wide-bodies. This allowed them to get more cargo downstairs and have less wasted crown space, which of course B is now using in other ways.

in the original A widebody design, they made the most of their interior volume, but now B's engineering is coming back to take advantage of wasted space in the 747, 777, and even designed in 'wasted' space into the 787 based on the solutions they found in the 777."