aemeijers wrote
> Scott in SoCal wrote
>> aemeijers wrote
>>> I think the Feds should mandate slightly wider seats and row pitch
>>> for new planes coming on line, for safety reasons if nothing else.
>> The Feds wouldn't have to mandate anything if people would simply refuse to fly on airlines that stack them like
>> cordwood and pack them in like sardines.
> Which leaves them few other choices, unless their destination happens
> to be one served by Amtrak or Greyhound, or they are willing to drive.
Or pay for first or business class.
> A decade or so back, several of the airlines tried to make a
> sales point of more room, but people buy mainly on price, and the
> revised cabins went back to normal at the next refresh cycle. For
> 80th percentile size people, where the bell curve starts falling off,
> the cabins are fine. It is mainly for bell curve outriders like me on
> height, shoulder width, and leg length, that it is a problem.
Try surgery. I'll do it for free with a chainsaw.
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