Airline policies on seating for plus sized customers- your thoughts?

ucbalumnus
Tue, 27 Jun 2023 16:14:51 +0000

1NJParent:

Not too long ago, the standard economy class seat pitch is 32". With the rise of ultra-low cost airlines (Frontier, Spirit, etc.) whose standard seat pitch is often only 28", even the major airlines have been gradually reducing their seat pitch to 30-31", with each new generation of airplanes they order.

I don’t recall typical seat pitch being 32" in recent decades, except on WN (Southwest). AA, CO, DL, NW, and UA typically had 31" (and AA, DL, and UA apparently still do), although AA went through a few years of “more room throughout coach” before deciding that it did not sell.