• CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month 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.

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      1 month 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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      1 month ago

      I have a Mustang, it’s a convertible. I’d honestly rather NOT have the back seats. They are useless anyway, I’d rather just have a 2 seater sports car.

  • RejZoR@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

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

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    1 month 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.

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    1 month ago

    I’m 5ft 2 and I feel like I barely fit in an airplane seat. And God forbid I have to use the restroom during the flight.

    Restrooms smaller than portable Scotty potties.

    I’m not someone who has claustrophobia but I’ll be real. Those restrooms feel like a coffin. And being on a flight longer 2 hours is a test of my mental fortitude.

    I’ve been on an airplane a few times for about 9 hours and I honestly felt slightly traumatized by the experience.

    Id love to travel to farther places but I don’t think I can handle those 13 hr flights.

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      1 month 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