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Originally Posted by 33girl
6'2" was a random height I picked - maybe 6'4" would be better, but yes, they should have to buy an extra seat. It's just as uncomfortable to be next to someone who is rootching around constantly as it is to be that person.
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Sorry -- Don't buy it. Buying the extra seat wouldn't do any good. Now if you want to require tall people to get an aisle seat, that's fine. I always do that anyway so that if I need the extra room it's in the aisle. And yes, I pay attention so that no one in the aisle needs to ask me to move my legs or feet.
The bottom line is that airplane seats are too crammed. Period. We all know that when we buy tickets. Anybody expecting to be truly comfortable should either pay more for first class or accept the reality that they will not be as comfortable as they might like to be. But unless you're going to actually be taking up space in a second seat, you shouldn't have to pay for a second seat.
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Your height (or weight, or dietary issue, or pregnancy) is not my problem. Therefore I shouldn't have to deal with it. The airlines can't have it both ways - they have made air travel cheaper and open to everyone, but they did it half-assed.
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We have to deal with inconveniences caused by other people all the time. But the second part of your statement i agree with completely.
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Originally Posted by DubaiSis
This would seem like the time to get on my high horse about how cheap airlines have gotten. The width and the pitch of seats have gotten freakishly small. That is clear to people of size who might have fit reasonably well in a seat 10 years ago, but the 6'2" guy is SOL. There's no way to buy the 2 seats HE needs, which is the one his butt is in and the one his knees are in. And frankly, before long business class isn't even going to be an alternative. They've angled them funny so they can cram in more business class seats so you can't even sit next to the person you're technically seated next to.
If everyone on a flight was of perfect weight and relatively short, people would still be frustrated over cramped quarters because flying is just a miserable experience. There's not enough oxygen, the seats are ungodly uncomfortable, the noise and vibration are irritating at best, and then you have the inevitable delays. When you add being treated like cattle and then realize you are being shoe-horned in next to someone who's a bit bigger than they'd like to be, you've got a recipe for disaster. I'm surprised fist-fights don't happen on flights every day.
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Spot on.