-See your doctor. I am 6'8" and had the same issue with my employer - as a cost-cutting measure it was decided that anybody but C-level would fly economy, peri

-See your doctor. I am 6'8" and had the same issue with my employer - as a cost-cutting measure it was decided that anybody but C-level would fly economy, period. A quick visit to my doctor (who, I should add, is 6'6" or so and as such understands the issue) resulted in a letter stating that physical discomfort aside, there was a very real chance that I might develop health issues from spending a few hundred hours[0] a year in such a cramped position - deep vein thrombosis most notably. Problem solved. No way they were going to risk acting against medical advice and later be confronted with it. Short haul I couldn't care less where I sit, but if I am to stay in a seat for several hours, it had better be reasonably comfortable. [0] At the time, this was not an exaggeration.