Thread: Fat pax want bigger seat and unlimited snacks
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Old 04-17-2023 | 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by hindsight2020
Bit of a sidebar but, for context, in 1985 none of the main 4 offered seating narrower than 19 inches, and we were a heck of a lot thinner as a society back then. So the causation is not on fat people entitlement being the genesis of this.
I was a kid in 1985, not flying a lot then but I’d have sworn 727s and 737s at United had 6-across seating when I was a kid. So were the aisles a lot narrower, or am I remembering incorrectly, or is the article wrong? I don’t see any other possibilities here.
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