An FAA-commissioned study meant to determine the effect of passenger body size, seat size, and seat pitch on cabin evacuation ...

Declining seat space for passengers on commercial airplanes, coupled with the growing prevalence of larger passengers in the ...

HAMBURG, Germany - Many airline passengers associate seat pitch, or the distance between a point on a seat and the same point on the seat ahead, with legroom, and 30 inches of pitch is fairly ...

The average seat pitch in economy class is 30 to 32 inches, and the average seat width is 17 inches. These numbers are meaningless to passengers because they don't consider the seat material and ...

This, however, has been hampered by the average seat pitch for seats shrinking from around 35 inches in the 1980s to between 28 and 31 inches today. Within the United States, ...

Ultra-low-cost carriers, such as Spirit Airlines, have reduced the pitch on many seats to 28 inches. The process has allowed airlines to collect more passenger revenue, ...

Spirit Airlines ranked last for seat pitch, measuring 28 inches. Getty Images “Legroom is a crucial aspect of passenger comfort, especially during longer flights,” Keri Stooksbury, ...

However, you can get an extra 4 inches of seat pitch for an additional charge by choosing one of its fleet’s Legroom + seats (either front- or exit-row).

Southwest intends to maintain its current average seat pitch of 31 inches on all its planes. How much legroom is available with extra legroom seats depends on the plane.

To make room on Southwest’s 737-700 fleet for extended legroom, it will remove one row of seats, going from 143 seats to 137 seats. That will leave seat pitch at 31 inches and match the legroom ...

If you can afford a seat in economy “comfort” or “plus” — which gives you about the same amount of seat pitch as economy class a few decades ago — then experts recommend that you do.

When reached for comment by The Arizona Republic, Southwest did not say what the premium-seat legroom will be and whether standard legroom would change from the 32-inch average seat pitch in the ...