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The ethics of reclining airplane seats

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Re: The ethics of reclining airplane seats

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Post by danaris »

readthenotes1 wrote: post #79
danaris wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Relying on "voting with dollars" for something like this is not going to work, because that requires an idealized free market . Air travel is not an idealized free market. Frankly, nearly nothing in our current circumstances even comes close to acting like an idealized free market, because one thing that requires is enough disposable income for all parties that paying more for something preferred is not likely to cau…

I just abandoned paying about $12 more to get more legroom on a flight. The flight itself was an unexpected $200 hit and I didn't want to pay more than I had to. In the US it seems there is not enough competition and as well their are significant barriers to entry for new airlines.

> In the US it seems there is not enough competition

You can just stop there and you'll be accurate about a major part of the source of almost any of our current problems.

Re: The ethics of reclining airplane seats

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Post by readthenotes1 »

danaris wrote: post #91
readthenotes1 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just abandoned paying about $12 more to get more legroom on a flight. The flight itself was an unexpected $200 hit and I didn't want to pay more than I had to. In the US it seems there is not enough competition and as well their are significant barriers to entry for new airlines.

> In the US it seems there is not enough competition You can just stop there and you'll be accurate about a major part of the source of almost any of our current problems.

Which problem goes back to not regulating greed well enough. I need other greedy bastards to jump out of bed with a new idea on how to make a buck, i just don't want them to take $1.10 when they do it...

Re: The ethics of reclining airplane seats

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Post by shkkmo »

sofixa wrote: post #70
shkkmo wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They aren't hard to find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_discrimination

This is about human perception, not about things being designed with a bias in favour of tall people.

I said nothing about things being “designed with a bias in favor of tall people.'

Tall people earn significantly more on average. Asking short people to underwrite tall people's airfare does not seem fair given that fact.

Re: The ethics of reclining airplane seats

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Post by samuli »

It is amazing that people blame each other for this. The seats are on rails and the airline can adjust the seat spacing in a couple of hours if it really wants to.

Just complain to the airline about inadequate space in coach.

Re: The ethics of reclining airplane seats

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Post by Markoff »

I'm around 200cm tall and reclining should be banned, actually don't even give this option to passengers at all, because there will be always ahole who reclines no matter what he is told. If you wanna sleep wait after flight.
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