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A major airline is going to make you pay to recline your seat (www.thestreet.com)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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This week, Canadian airline WestJet became one of the first to try to switch the ability to recline into a paid "perk" by announcing that it was reconfiguring 43 of its Boeing 737-8 MAX and 737-800 (BA) planes to have what it classifies as a "refreshed range of seating options."

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[-] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 39 points 3 days ago

I'll pay extra to disable the person in front of me from being able to recline their seat.

As it is, I never use seat recline because there isnt fucking room.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They cost $42,95 but I kinda think it’s a shitty move when you can upgrade to extra legroom in most flights.

Knee dedenders

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I'm 6'3". Why should I have to pay while stubbies don't?

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago

Sure then they should have reduced the cost of non reclining seats and nobody would care. But they are charging more for something they was included before.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 days ago

where exactly is there not room, in your experience?

in mine, it just doesn't really matter, so I've never been able to relate to comments like this, and nobody ever actually explains the details of why there isn't room

I could understand somebody with long legs and the seat going back three quarters of an inch is enough to make a difference, but that's about it, and that seems pretty uncommon to me because most people are not 6ft tall. although I'm not accounting for slouching

[-] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 7 points 2 days ago

I'm over 6 feet. Only place in westjet flights I have enough legroom to not be unhealthy are the exit aisle and the first one behind second class seats.