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Weird title- the story isn’t really about reduction in leg room (seat pitch) it’s reduction in seat width. Cebu Pacific is getting A330 aircraft with a 3-3-3 c
by alexhutcheson 7y ago
Weird title- the story isn’t really about reduction in leg room (seat pitch) it’s reduction in seat width.
Cebu Pacific is getting A330 aircraft with a 3-3-3 configuration in economy, instead of the 2-4-2 configuration that most airlines use for that aircraft. The result is seats that are only 16.5” wide. I already find the 17.5” wide seats on the 787 to be very uncomfortable for long-haul flights, so I can’t imagine squeezing into 16.5” seats.
- moltar 7y agoWhich could work quite well since Asians have a smaller frame on average.
- gumby 7y agoIs that really true? Smaller than whom? I have large and small relatives on both sides of my family. And while my mother is quite small, her kids, nieces and nephews, none of whom spent their childhood in the middle of a war as she did, appear anecdotally to cluster around the global mean.
- moltar 7y agoThis shows height by country. I’m assuming the rest of the body is also proportional. Canada and Philippines has a 10cm difference for males. That’s about 6%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_average_human_height_worldwide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_average_human_height_w...