Originally Posted by
montezume
I'm sure other industries would love to be able to act in this same manner. I should start a restaurant and save on costs by using expired food and not cleaning the kitchen, because consumers always want lower prices. At some point, the government needs to step in and implement regulations. Unfortunately, this won't happen in Canada. What's likely to happen is that the US will implement regulations, and Canadian airlines will have to follow.
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Originally Posted by
Wpgjetse
No, this is not about safety, but entitlement.
So predictable
Originally Posted by
Wpgjetse
You are missing the point completely. Entitlement is not safety. Basically you are saying that the government should regulate car seats, because leather seat are more comfortable than your vinyl seat and some "expert" has said the discomfort is bad for your health. There was a option, but why pay for it, when the government should make the company give it to me for free.
As I said at the start, this thread is based on entitlement, because most of the people wanting larger seat, will not pay the extra price, drive to the US for cheaper tickets and fly on the smaller seat they dislike. Them write into FT or CBC that we can't fly out of CDN because the fares are to high.
No one here is asking for a "comfortable" seat; that's far too subjective because, as
canadiancow likes to point out, we're all different. There's no one-seat(bread)-fits-all solution.
Airlines went 10-across to increase revenue, not drop prices. They get to sell more seats versus 9-across. Heck, Air Canada introduced rouge for the same purpose. They generally didn't touch prices on rouged routes. As a matter of fact, their executives came on this very board and explained that rouge was a way for them to reduce costs and justify operating routes which otherwise didn't meet their required level of profitability.
They did it to make more money.
Airlines are making denser planes to make more money.
Customers are angry because the seats are too small. They don't think they're entitled to bigger seats or more comfortable seats; they're pushing back because it's obvious that the airlines are going too far in making planes more dense.
You may never notice this from high atop your J perch, but it's a real problem for the vast majority of the occupants on every. single. one. of your flights.