Reply #90: It's more of a matter of designing seats for humans, not hobbits! [View All]

[cascadiance]

I'm not trim, but I'm certainly not obese either, and I tell you, just two days ago I had one of the worst space cramped flights I'd ever been on on a United 757. I hadn't had any sleep the night before, and there still was no way I could get any sleep with the cramped legs I had the whole flight. Even on the larger Airbus I flew on right afterward which had a bit more space, the guy behind me bitched and moaned if I tried to recline my seat at all of his leg room, and therefore I still couldn't get a decent sleep on that flight either.

Hoping that my return flights on 737's tomorrow won't be as bad. At least I'll probably be a bit better rested than before!

And if you say it's more about "weight" than space, well sure BOTH are true. If they try to maximize the number of passengers they pack into a small space, it doesn't matter if those folks are overweight or average weight, the more people they pack in, the more weight they are going to have on that plane. They are simply trying to cramp people way too much!