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Originally Posted by glatt
Don't they already do that, and call it first class, and charge 5 times the coach rate?
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
Like glatt said, they do that and they call it first class. The problem is your 4-to-5 switch doesn't really do much: an airline seat is maybe 18 inches across? So in a more spacious row of 4 seats, each seat is only getting an extra 4 inches. That's not gonna help Tubby McLardass a whole bunch. Same with the extra space in the front, it's only going to be a few inches.
First class generally has 3 rows 4 seats across, where in coach they could have fit 5 rows 6 across. So you've gone from 30 seats to 12, and not surprisingly, they charge somewhere between 2 and 3 times the price depending on the demand in that flight for the first class seats. Seems perfectly fair to me.
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but unaffordable to many. I was trying for a compromise, a little more space for not quite so much more money.
An extra 4 inches in both directions would be a huge help for a lot of people who are not ginormous, but maybe 6'2" and built to match. It's nearly a 25% increase each way, ffs -nearly 50% increase in square inches. You wouldn't say no to that if it was a pay rise