• Devial@discuss.online
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      14 hours ago

      Dude. Larger spaced economy seats would LITERALLY be doing the same exact thing. There is no world where you get more space for the same amount of money.

      Airlines already don’t make a lot of profit on economy seats, if any. It’s not like they’re price gauging you on the basic economy price. The majority of their profit comes higher classes, baggage and other service upgrades, and at least in America, credit card reward programs. Economy class by itself is already barely, if at all, profitable. Making it significantly more spacious will inevitably and without doubt lead to higher prices. And if you’re willing to pay those higher prices, we’ll that’s literally already an option today. The only thing you’re advocating for here is forcing literally everyone to pay that upcharge, even those that don’t want or need it.

      It’s also bad for the environment. As uncomfortable as it is, stuffing as many people as you possibly can into one aircraft reduces the total number of aircrafts/size of aircraft required for a certain passenger number. Not that that’s why airlines do it of course, but it’s a genuinely desirable and positive side effect of the cramped economy seating.