Increasingly
cramped airline seating has spawned a cottage industry of wacky inventions aimed to help business travelers get some much - coveted shut - eye.
Cons: Keeping a child confined to
a cramped airline seat can be difficult enough without adding the extra time that comes with preboarding — on a jumbo jet, this could be up to a half hour or more.
Not exact matches
Spirit
Airlines is notorious for four things: Dirt - cheap fares,
cramped seats, no free water, and bottom of the barrel ad campaigns.
April 9, 2018 • But
cramped seats, cutbacks on freebies and extra fees weren't measured in the report and are wearing on
airline travelers.
If you happen to be flying on an Etihad Airways route between Abu Dhabi and New York (JFK), London Heathrow, Melbourne, Mumbai or Sydney, and have enough
airline miles, you can exchange that annoying
cramped economy
seat for an apartment with more amenities than you can imagine.
Normally I would simply book the cheapest fare I could find that didn't leave me in a
cramped seat with just 30 ″ of
seat pitch — this usually means booking Economy Class with a oneworld
airline where my status allows me to select an exit row
seat at the time of booking — but that's not what I did this time.
The biggest change passengers will see is that the
airline has squeezed an extra
seat into each row of Economy Class meaning that the already
cramped seating conditions are about to get worse.....
That's horrible... and the fact that the
seat pitch is just 31 ″ means that this is about as
cramped as it gets from a legacy
airline (it's not quite as bad as Air Canada's Rouge subsidiary)
Although the new entertainment system is the best of any
airline, it couldn't make up for the
cramped economy
seats.
For those flying to HKG on the very
cramped 777 with 10 abreast
seating, complain to AC which use to have 9 across, and select another
airline that has 9 abreast
seating.
That makes it easy to slip into even a thin pocket and open in
cramped spaces (like a coach
seat on an American
Airlines international flight).