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The plane truth. (Airline Seats).
Getting stuck in a lousy seat on a long flight is no picnic. Squeezed between fellow passengers like the filling in a DoubleStuf Oreo, prevented from reading or eating by the person whose seatback lies in your lap, and bathed in fumes from the lavatory, you can only pray that the plane will land early.
To help you avoid such misery we examined economy-class seating on long-haul aircraft of 11 top U.S. airlines as well as Air Canada. (On short-haul flights, generally those lasting less than 5 hours, reliability is more important than comfort for most people.) We found that on the same airplane, there can be significant differences in seat size and roominess-albeit ...
- The real skinny on airline seats: Only pygmies fit.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Wooldridge, Jane July 29, 2002 700+ words
...here is the airlines. Post-regulation airline seats were designed for pygmies. That was...don't all fit into those weeny little airline seats. Check this out: Some airline seats are only 17 INCHES wide. I figure it like this: If airlines...
- Northwest Airlines introduces high tech in-flight entertainment system....
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 21, 1988 700+ words
...video programming via personal screens mounted in the backs of airline seats. Northwest showed off Airvision today during an in-flight...any of six programs, adjust the brightness of the three-inch liquid crystal color screens, and control the volume through...
- Airline Seats Put the Squeeze on Passengers
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times CATHY LYNN GROSSMAN June 11, 1995 700+ words
...reading this while flying on a 737 aircraft, crushed into a 19-inch wide middle seat with your knees mashed against your nose for...if you can't make your seat wider than the typical 19 or 20 inches or increase the leg room, you may be able to fly with no one...
- Weird, wonderful surplus, from army boots to airline seats.(Best of the West)
- Magazine article from: Sunset Crosby, Bill November 1, 1995 700+ words
...Faye Petrack tells us of a similar browser's paradise, M & I Surplus in her hometown of Pomona, California. "Every inch of the 13,000-square-foot store is jam-packed with wonderful stuff! From French foreign legion hats to cowboy hats...
- Travel TIPS.(Stagecoach Trails accessible dude ranch; SeeMore Scenic Tours from...
- Magazine article from: Paraplegia News Randall, Carol December 1, 2000 700+ words
...of staying ahead of the land-crab holes. The bungalows are large, and you'll have plenty of room to move around the beds. All doors are 36 inches wide and have lever handles; bathrooms are large, 7 feet x 15 feet; sinks have knee
- Airline seats are torture chairs - experts.(Life)
- Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa) August 27, 2009 700+ words
WASHINGTON: Airline seats aren't just uncomfortable, they're unhealthy, says Eileen Vollowitz, a physical therapist who specialises in ergonomics...
- Rule to require stronger airline seats.
- Newspaper article from: The Kiplinger Letter December 30, 1998 700+ words
FAA will require stronger airline seats. Rule will affect 70% of the existing fleet, costing industry at least $1 billion. New seats less likely to break away from the floor, making a crash more survivable.
- Get ready to fly more privately with 'Cozy Suite' airline seats.
- News wire article from: Asian News International March 9, 2009 700+ words
...could increase the width of each seat to 50 centimetres and a knee space of 78 centimetres, five centimetres more than other airline seats. "A conventional seat on a Boeing 737 is 17.5" (44.5 centimetres) wide; our seats are 19" (48 centimetres...
