On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:01:02 GMT, aemeijers wrote:
>Scott in SoCal wrote:
>> In message
>> , 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. 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.
Umm, have you traveled by Greyhound? You think the pitch of the seats
is bad on the airlines...
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