Flying experience, I could write a book. But below is an email I sent my brother. They now have comfort class which is the same cheap seats with 5” of more leg room. If you don’t buy that, most of the airlines are the same.
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My last flight home from LA to Honolulu was excellent. The seat was wider and had more leg room. It also had more cushion to the seat and I never got tired of sitting down. On most flights, my butt hurts so bad and my legs ache because I can’t move them and it is a pain to fly these days. About half way across the Pacific I realized that I was in an older airplane and that they don’t build them that way any longer. There was also and article in the news yesterday how all the airlines are taking the seats out of 777s and putting in smaller seats that are lighter and putting them close together with less leg room so that they can sell more seats on the same plane.
It is just amazing that for the last 10 years I have been saying that flight was painful and I don’t like flying as much as I used too. I thought that I was just getting older. But the problem is the plane seats are just getting cheaper and smaller. What a bummer and there is not much anyone can do but pay more to fly first class.
The real kicker was that I told one of the flight attendants that was the best plane I had been on in a long time and every time I fly, I plan to jump on Delta’s 777. Her response was that the plane was on the way to Australia to have all the seats removed so that they could install smaller seats and more seats. Sometimes, you just can’t win. But at least I now know the pain wasn’t from getting older, it was from cheaper, smaller seats with no leg room.
Tom
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