• definitemaybe@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    What the flying fuck. I’m only 6’, and in 30" seats, my knees were already touching the chair in front in an already uncomfortable seating position. I could squeeze in tighter a bit, but only with a painfully small hip angle. With losing 2", I’d only fit with my knees in front of the seat next to me. Three men of high-average height couldn’t reasonably fit into these seats next to each other, I reckon.

    I’d probably need to stand in the aisle the whole flight, then sue in small claims court if I didn’t get at least full refund.

    The only way losing 2" could work would be with hard-backed chairs, since they’d be thin enough that you could fit, but I don’t think it’s safe for many to sit, with limited possible movement, on hard chairs for any length of time.

    What a disaster. And all to get, like, 2% more seats on a plane? Not to mention how much retrofitting 22 planes cost. Such a colossal fuck up.

    • SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      1 day ago

      I’m 6’2" and things were already tight for me as well.

      The problem with thier shuffling method is it compounds the already bad flight delays(there’s also the carry-on shuffle they caused) and most of their seats won’t even fit me so at a certain point you might just get bumped off the entire flight and they don’t even give you a real number to make decisions with. I actually don’t even know which seat fits me because aside from padding the seat angle also changes the real leg room so the pitch measurement is almost useless.

    • scutiger@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I’m 5’7 and get uncomfortable on flights. I can’t imagine a 28" seat pitch being reasonable in any way.