am I getting to fat for my seatbelt [Shorter belts in J on VA 737s?]

[suze2000]

Had another confounding seatbelt situation this week. Flew VLI-BNE in 738 (seat 11F) and was strangled by the seatbelt. To the extent that I took it off during level flight because it was too uncomfortable to wear continuously. The other three sectors of the trip (MEL-BNE, BNE-VLI, BNE-MEL), I had a couple of inches to spare. BNE-VLI was an older livery Virgin Pacific plane. I did also notice though that the seat width in some of the planes appeared different as well (in fact the strangly seatbelt seat also seemed wider, I wonder if that's why it was strangly?), and I thought all VA seats were the same meagre 17".

 

[suze2000]

All E190’s had the longer belt fitted during the Business Class refit.

Just a followup question (applies to both the 737s and E190s): are you changing the belts in J and Y or just J? (I never get to fly J, sadly)