• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Actually, I prefer the tight packing. I wanna get from A to B, and have you seen how expensive tickets are?

      They should really be using wide body flying/blended wings so the cabin is more spacious for the same max payload, but that’s a separate matter.


      That being said, I think airlines should mix in a few spacier seats, for big/tall people, for a small, markup, and exclude all the business class extras.

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        22 hours ago

        Airlines already do this, premium economy. Usually the seats that happen to have more leg room due to the design of the cabin.

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        18 hours ago

        I mean they do have some small number of seats with extra legroom, that you can pay upcharge for. Exit row seats, bulk head seats, premium economy, to a smaller degree simply choosing an airline with a more spacious configuration in their planes.

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      21 hours ago

      There’s already a solution for that. It’s called premium economy/business class.

      And if you’re gonna say “but that’s so much more expensive”, well guess what’s going to happen if you reduce how many pax can fit on an aircraft.

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        18 hours ago

        Folks should not down vote him, the cost of flights considering inflation have dropped a ton over the years. Its comodetized and made highly efficient with cramped quarters and more efficient technology. If you want more room to fly old school it simply costs more…

        https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/history-of-flight-costs

        "In 1970, a domestic round-trip flight from New York to Los Angeles cost about $150, which is equivalent to over $1,000 today when adjusted for inflation, while today the same flight averages around $300. "

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          Dude. Larger spaced economy seats would LITERALLY be doing the same exact thing. There is no world where you get more space for the same amount of money.

          Airlines already don’t make a lot of profit on economy seats, if any. It’s not like they’re price gauging you on the basic economy price. The majority of their profit comes higher classes, baggage and other service upgrades, and at least in America, credit card reward programs. Economy class by itself is already barely, if at all, profitable. Making it significantly more spacious will inevitably and without doubt lead to higher prices. And if you’re willing to pay those higher prices, we’ll that’s literally already an option today. The only thing you’re advocating for here is forcing literally everyone to pay that upcharge, even those that don’t want or need it.

          It’s also bad for the environment. As uncomfortable as it is, stuffing as many people as you possibly can into one aircraft reduces the total number of aircrafts/size of aircraft required for a certain passenger number. Not that that’s why airlines do it of course, but it’s a genuinely desirable and positive side effect of the cramped economy seating.