Todos
← Back to Squawk list
Passengers feel the squeeze as planes take off with more seats, less elbow room
Feel like your coach seat on an overseas flight is a tighter squeeze? You're probably right. Airlines already have been wedging in more passengers by swapping heavily padded seats for ones with thinner backs or reducing the distance between rows. On wide-body aircraft typically used on international flights and certain long domestic routes, some now are adding an extra seat to each row. (www.chicagotribune.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
My REAL concern is the ability for passengers to evacuate the plane in an emergency. All those people stuffed inside a metal tube now in a panic mode and are now doing trip, stumble and fall while attempting to get the hell out of Dodge. That's a real concern in a fire, floating on Hudson or where the plane finally stops.
I agree... LOL... that is one reason that I like the window seat right by that door. I have taken out thousands of them in the process of MX... LOL, The hardest thing for me is to throw it out of the A/C as I am usually doing my best to not damage it as I would be the one repairing it... LOL!
What is wrong with my comment, Why was this down voted? I was simply stating that in an emergency I would be very capable of opening the door as I have done so, so many times before and that from my training of taking care of the a/c it would be hard to throw it out!
Evidently, someone is voting down the comments of anyone that has made a reference to weight and it being a safety hazard for evac., in this thread. I'm guessing whoever is doing it is over "standard weight". LOL
Seriously folks....Instead of getting upset, or voting down because you chose to be offended, realize that you put not only yourself at risk when you are on an air carrier, but you put all of the other passengers at risk too. This isn't about "your feelings", it is about SAFETY, and could literally mean the difference between "life and death".
Seriously folks....Instead of getting upset, or voting down because you chose to be offended, realize that you put not only yourself at risk when you are on an air carrier, but you put all of the other passengers at risk too. This isn't about "your feelings", it is about SAFETY, and could literally mean the difference between "life and death".
I hate to think how long a total evacuation would take with such cramped seating....it should be a safety concern.
Im sick of the walmart mentality that drives these situations