• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    48 minutes ago

    Last time I flew on a plane the armrest from the seat in front of me actually cut my knee there was so little room. My only other option was to get my leg run over by the drink cart.

  • RejZoR@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    If it was really down to airlines they’d design airplanes for sardines…

  • Štěpán@lemmy.cafe
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    3 hours ago

    two hour flight to London with RyanAir was an absolute nightmare for me, and i’m ~196 cm which isn’t even that tall.

    it really sucks that my options are either to suffer or to pay more.

  • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 hours ago

    Not just airlines (or rather plane manufacturers) but bus and train manufacturers, too. And car makers when it comes to the back seats. Basically any company producing means of multi-person transportation.

    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      Not just airlines (or rather plane manufacturers)

      Distance between seats is determined by the airline, not the plane manufacturers. The seats mount on rails and are easily moved around by the airlines to optimize amount of possible seats.

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      4 hours ago

      WestJet says feedback and operational data about the scaled-back 28-inch seat pitch, which reduced legroom, prompted the airline to change its “cabin-configuration approach” on aircraft where seating had been “densified.”

      Aahhh, who doesn’t love some corpo speak