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In my mind the root problem is airplane seat pitch.....they are cramming more and more people into the aircraft and there appears to be no sort of regulation or limit to how close they can sardine us in there.
I am not a fan of government over-regulation, but generally, I think it is high time that there be a few rules/agreements/regulations that set a minimum seat pitch.
I fly KLM a lot, my butt to kneecap measurement is 28.5 inches and KLM's economy seat pitch is 31, which means if I sit straight, allowing perhaps 3 inches for the padding of the seat in front of me....I do not physically fit into their economy seat.....so when I can, I upgrade.
If I get stuck in economy, even sitting still, the person in front of me invariably complains about my knees in their backside....I can't do anything about it. If they recline, well, lets just say I have had a couple of cases where the irate person in front of me trying to recline their seat accused me of deliberately kneeing them in the back, when in reality, all I was doing was sitting as neatly as possible. Can't swing to the side as I encroach on to my neighbours seat and there is very little extra width available to me, and I am not fat at all, just wide at the hips.
So personally, I think we need some regulations governing seat pitch and width. My vote would be 33 inch pitch and probably around 19 inch width, or perhaps some sort of sensible regulation setting pitch/width to cover the 95th percentile or similar.
This is getting ridiculous.....couple that with air line check in issues, well, air travel is a misery
Dennis
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