Should They Start.

[TWR]

There has been many comments of passengers and their own personal weight, do you think it's fair that a person that weighs 20 stone upwards pays the same as a person weighing from 10 stones up to the mentioned weight?

[doctordb]

Best leg room I've had is American airlines.

[askyourgran]

That really gets me mad when some plonker puts his seat back almost on your lap. Fortunately the stewardess asked him to sit up before I did.

[Zacs-Master]

Seats at the rear of the aircraft generally have more leg room as the inward curve of the fuselage means they have to space them out more. Certainly so on a Virgin 777.

[naomi24]

That would seem to be the way it would work, Zacs. Best to stick to Business and First - where available. ;o)

[237SJ]

I sound like a right pedant now but Virgin don`t have 777s

[doctordb]

The stewardesses do have the best uniforms though. :)

[237SJ]

No, this is the best uniform. Check out the red tights..

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6023/6017822931_efc1f25150_z.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/myfreeco/6017822931/&;h=640&w=415&sz=59&tbnid=qA98zge_ixFZbM:&;tbnh=96&tbnw=62&zoom=1&;usg=__RO10q6pweY8mrjbICylzOmRs_Hk=&docid=Rdn0iV9jjWRiVM&sa=X&ei=hFFoUrHfIeud0wWw9YDIBw&ved=0CDgQ9QEwBA

[doctordb]

Flew on Lao airlines last week sj, can't do the link but their uniform was lovely.

[jno]

glad to hear it, doctorb

http://www.news.com.au/world/laos-recovers-crashed-lao-airlines-plane-cabin-from-mekong-river/story-fndir2ev-1226745662709

[doctordb]

Took off from luang prabang a couple of days after that flight jno.

[sherrardk]

I have five (well behaved) children, no one wants to sit by us. Get a grip, life's too short for this . I doubt you are flying somewhere every week.

[mosesg]

How do you know they pay the same as you after all flight prices fluctuate depending on when you buy them. I have been on holiday with friends where we have all booked our own flights and all had different prices for our flight

[Brinjal]

As long as they don't spread into my seat I don't care but I find people tend to spread their elbows into my space and their backsides and bellies creep onto my chair as well then they need to get a second seat I am entitled to the space I pay for and not half to share half with someone elsr

[mushroom25]

I posted this link on another thread -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Midwest_Flight_5481

one of the causal factors was an overload due to inaccurate average weight figures. Note the NTSB recommend operators of small planes use actual weight rather than average, as out-of-trim (when coupled to other adverse factors) can cause problems.

[jno]

elbows are tricky. People in middle seats don't get an armrest of their own, whereas those in aisle and window seats do.

[McMouse]

Overweight people should travel in the cargo hold.

[Brinjal]

I was led to believe that the etiquette for arm rests was that start by the window and take the right arm rest the aisle person gets two. But it never works that way. I can be by the window or the aisle but I never get an arm rest well I do get the left one if I am on the aisle but the person next to me will be half in my seat

[factor-fiction]

Someone may already have pointed this out, but I thought the excess baggage charges were to reflect the additional work baggage handlers need to do rather than because of the impact on the amount of fuel needed.