Also, many travelers don't get to choose at all. I work at a public university in Spain, and we have a regulation that we can only fly economy class. I think al

Also, many travelers don't get to choose at all. I work at a public university in Spain, and we have a regulation that we can only fly economy class. I think all the Spanish public sector does that, and probably many other European countries. I'm 1.97 tall and standard economy class seats are a torture to me. When I travel for personal reasons, I avoid planes whenever possible and otherwise, at any flight longer than one hour I buy at least an upgrade to a so-called "premium economy" seat or an emergency exit seat (which used to be free, but now they charge extra for them too). I could also do that for work flights out of my own pocket, but I find the concept of paying for work flights quite outrageous, apart from the fact that in some flights I would need to pay half my monthly salary for the upgrade. I'm hoping for regulation to impose a minimum seat pitch, it's the only thing that can save me from torturous flights in the short term (the other would be a local regulation that people over a certain dimensions can be paid a better ticket in public sector travel, but I think hell will freeze over before that, because austerity, etc.).