Seriously, why are so many cheering this on. It's obviously just going to make everyone more uncomfortable.Less comfortable seats and more room to pack in extra rows of seats. How can we lose?
Less comfortable seats and more room to pack in extra rows of seats. How can we lose?
Their story doesn't add up, especially considering they are reducing recline in first class when there is plenty of room to recline without incident. So you'll forgive me if I don't take the massive corporations PR spin at face value.They specifically said retrofit the existing seats. The footprint is staying the same, so where are these imaginary added seats your complaining of and that the article specifically dispells coming from?
Let's go to the original story that CNN is quoting.They specifically said retrofit the existing seats. The footprint is staying the same, so where are these imaginary added seats your complaining of and that the article specifically dispells coming from?
Trust the PR of an airline company lol. Yeah they would never make customer experiences worse for more profit!Delta is promising, at least for now, that it won't reduce legroom or squeeze in additional seats along with the recline change.
"We're not adding a single seat into the aircraft," Ekrem Dimbiloglu, Delta's director of onboard product and customer experience, told TPG in a phone interview.
"It's really not at all a gateway to reducing your legroom. That is not the intent here," Dimbiloglu said. "If we were adding seats, or something else, the cynics would be correct. But this is really about more personal space."
Some airlines do operate with a much higher seat count. For example, low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines has "pre-reclined" its seats and is able to cram in 25 more passengers than Delta does on the same jet. (Delta offers 3 to 4 more inches of legroom than Spirit in its tightest seat.)
LOLThey specifically said retrofit the existing seats. The footprint is staying the same, so where are these imaginary added seats your complaining of and that the article specifically dispells coming from?
This for real. I find all the corporate cheerleaders in this thread truly bizarre.How about they just design planes to hold the correct amount of people for a comfortable roomy flight and not pack people in like fucking sardines.
This for real. I find all the corporate cheerleaders in this thread truly bizarre.
.Yeah sorry guy behind me - no way am I doing 11 hours without reclining.
good, people are fucking selfish pricks that recline too far and ruin the flight for the person behind them
Joke's on you when seat pitch gets taken down to 28", like Spirit and Frontier.good, people are fucking selfish pricks that recline too far and ruin the flight for the person behind them
I keep adding all of them to the post. Quoting for when Delta decides to cut seat pitch due to all the corporate cheerleaders who cheered this on.
The problem is that AA and United follow suit. This month's casualty has been United's award chart after Delta removed theirs a while back. AA seems to be almost ready to follow suit due to United folding.Well if they add more seats and reduce space then I wont fly with Delta
Well if they add more seats and reduce space then I wont fly with Delta
THANK YOU
On a recent flight, I had the woman in front of me recline all the fucking way back during mealtime. It was frustrating as hell and the flight attendants couldn't do anything about it.
Flight attendants always go seat to seat telling everyone who is reclining to upright their seat during meal service. What airline was this that they failed such a simple task?
Please stop lying. There is not such rule and they do not do that.Flight attendants always go seat to seat telling everyone who is reclining to upright their seat during meal service. What airline was this that they failed such a simple task?
Please stop lying. There is not such rule and they do not do that.
I've taken hundreds of flights (mostly Europe, but recently a lot in the US too), never had that happen.I mean, I fly all the damn time. Whenever people are reclined during meal time they come and ask to raise the seat.
Oh, Asian airlines. Fair enough. We thought you were flying Domestic only.I mean, I fly all the damn time. Whenever people are reclined during meal time they come and ask to raise the seat. I fly mostly in Asia though, but it's happened plenty of times on US carriers for me while flying internationally. I don't think I've gotten food service on a domestic flight in the USA in years.
Of course service is generally a lot better in Asia, not just on flights. American flight attendants usually do the bare minimum.
Edit: and it's not like it's difficult to ask people to raise their seat when they are passing out the meal. Most people are decent human beings from my experience and automatically put up their seat when the food service comes along, so they only have to ask like 5-10 people at most to raise their seatrest. It's not like they are announcing it to hundreds of people.
JetBlue is only domestic.Why are people flying Delta and not jetblue?
The standard leg room in jetblue is greater than the premium economy leg room in Delta.
I physically an to tall to fly standard Delta. I walked off the last Delta flight someone booked me on.
*For Now.
International I fly business.
It's another step by a legacy carrier towards non-reclinable seats in economy, like Spirit's.
Yeah, I always fly exit for Delta international. But without a doubt JetBlue is the best for coach legroom.International I fly business.
Too tall for some of the lie flats lol.