Airplane manufacturers and airlines should stop maximizing throughput via smaller seats.
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2025
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Actually, I prefer the tight packing. I wanna get from A to B, and have you seen how expensive tickets are?
They should really be using wide body flying/blended wings so the cabin is more spacious for the same max payload, but that’s a separate matter.
That being said, I think airlines should mix in a few spacier seats, for big/tall people, for a small, markup, and exclude all the business class extras.
Airlines already do this, premium economy. Usually the seats that happen to have more leg room due to the design of the cabin.
Ah I missed this last time.
No.
Airlines should be regulated so the seats are larger and accommodate larger people.
And if you managed to fly before airlines were deregulated, then you know that this was once the norm and isn't too much to ask.
Why is people downvoting an actual unpopular opinion? I meant, you might have your opinion on the subject but the post itself is on point.
Because they're offended 😂
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If you're thinking of this, consider that those who buy clothes in XS have to pay the same amount as the XXL size for that same shirt or pants. Despite the XS garment being a third as much material and stitching.
The extra material and stitching you are talking about costs less than a US penny for any manufacturing process.
Once you get above about XXXL, you typically have to pay significantly more to get a shirt that fits correctly in that size.
Not arguing, just food for thought...
That only works for some clothing. Usually by the time you get to XL the arms or legs aren't proportionately wider, only the body, so the sizing often doesn't really work. If it's numbered sizes, above the regular range there usually is a premium price for + sizes, same as for petite.
I feel like this is a fairly common opinion. Also, I believe they do have to after some point; not sure how the airline decides though?
Exactly.
And if you're someone who has lost a lot of weight, and lived in the world of a fat person and an average-sized person, you know that very well.
Go by a golden corral and you will definitely find people who don't physically fit in 1 plane seat
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Why not both? Bigger seats and weight-based ticket prices!
The ticket should come with a total weight of the passenger and their luggage. If I’m skinny let me bring 70kg bags.
I'm tall and don't fit in any seat other than an exit row. If there aren't any exit rows should I be forced to pay for the seat in front of me?
I mean, look at it from the passenger in front's perspective. They're paying as much for their seat as everyone else presumably, and yet if you're too tall to fit in your seat and your knees are pressed up against theirs for the whole flight, they're having a considerably worse experience than everyone else. Should they have to pay as much as everyone else does, with that in mind?
Yeah dude, corporations should be able to do whatever the fuck they want!
/s
Fatty here.
Southwest Airlines in the United States let's you buy an extra seat, and then when you check in at the airport, they will refund the cost of the extra seat provided you are a "person of size."
Being that the center arm rests go up, this makes it significantly more tolerable for both me, and the regular sized person who sits in the row with me.
A lot of the other airlines used to do this as well. Now only Southwest does... For now...
Really covering new ground with this one...
I'm not sure this is unpopular, even on Lemmy.
Someone else already said that they should stop making the seats tiny.
A lot of airlines do https://www.obesityaction.org/resources/to-buy-or-not-to-buy-an-extra-seat-2/
Wow
first seeing US Airways, and then later in the article Continental mentioned, lets me know that the page linked is wildly out of date.
I wonder if Pan-Am will make an appearance.
Why punish the fat when being stupid is still free everywhere?
Agreed!
People will always hate fats more than billionaires.
False comparison. No one mentioned billionaires. Two completely separate topics.
I can draw the tangent. Airline industry executives cut costs to make more profits including decreasing seat sizes and increasing number of seats. If they cared less about profit and went back to sizes decades ago, almost no one would be uncomfortable. They go on to tell us it's about fuel economy and the environment while they fly their private jets.
Now that is a decent argument.
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