(31 Jan 2015, 9:39 pm)Jimmi wrote As a regular passenger of Sapphire service 7 I have to say that I don't mind the e-leather seats and find them quite comfortable when I had them for an hour to college two mornings a week most weeks. When I went to Newcastle on Tuesday I had the 7 to Durham then I had a 57 reg Lowlander on the X2 and all my family thought the e-leather seats on the Sapphire Pulsar's were nicer than the fabric seats on the Lowlander.
Have to say though I think my favourite seats on modern buses in the NE have to be the GNE fabric seats in the B9TL's and also like the ones in the Tynedale Xpress Solar's.
Could you find the e-leather seats weird because you are not used to them because I wasn't too sure on them at first when the 7 first became Sapphire but I quite like them now, they aren't luxurious but still pretty nice.
On top of my regular trips out which allows for opportunities to ride on Arriva's fleet with e-leather seating, I use the 23 service on an almost daily basis. Other than the fact they look smart, I think that fabric seating is far more comfortable and as such is superior.
Durham - Darlington on e-leather seating is just dreadful. Only upside is that they have high backed seating, I guess.