Articles tagged “airline seats”

The design works well for families who can adjust space for a single cost or petite passengers who can trade less space for cheaper fares. But in the end, it's just another design in which flyers who can afford more space, buy it, and those who can't, survive.

It isn't only the extra legroom, but the power outlets, priority boarding and complimentary entertainment will be enticements to book the Extra Comfort seats on long-haul flights for Hawaiian Airlines.

This stumbling and bumbling by United after the merger has been way longer than most people envisioned. Passengers indeed want a user-friendly experience through the booking and travel cycle, and won't be satisfied with "Fly the Friendly Skies" commercials.

Some 40% of U.S. domestic flights currently feature seats with extra legroom in coach that are available for a fee. Expect that percentage to rise in 2014 and again in 2015.

Airline seats are the new battleground for aviation flash and Qantas' investment in improving the designs and experience of flights primarily headed to Asia shows where its priorities lie.

Airline seats in coach are getting ever-more cramped as carriers leave the legroom to passengers purchasing higher-fare tickets. Anything that would make long-haul flights more comfortable to non-elite flyers would almost be like manna from heaven.

Now, if US Airways would pay a little more attention to their relatively low-paying passengers in coach, that would be something.

With U.S. airlines selling aisle, window and exit row seats for an extra fee throughout the aircraft, child-free zones could be a logistical nightmare even if it were a good idea.

Will you get a pre-merger Continental bed or a pre-merger United bed? When airlines talk about the complexities of mergers, they rarely talk about this stuff and how it may impact your beauty sleep.

Nice way to sell Main Cabin Extra seats. Just make the other seats in economy so cramped that buying the Main Cabin Extra seats with more leg room becomes almost a necessity.