Airlines Channel La-Z-Boy to Cut Costs

Travel Blog  •  Alicia Imbody  •  06.19.09 | 9:01 AM ET

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As more and more premium passengers move to coach, airlines are desperately trying to find ways to reduce costs and update their fleets. The latest experiment: reducing seat pitch (the distance between a point in your seat and the same point in the one behind you) to make room for a dozen or so extra passengers.

American Airlines assured Travel Weekly that the seats should seem roomier in spite of adjustments to cram in even more. A spokesman described the new sliding feature to preserve legroom “like a La-Z-Boy recliner.” Just, you know, wedged in between 159 other recliners.

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Alicia Imbody is a former World Hum intern and an international development consulant based out of Washington D.C.


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