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 ...

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, ...

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).

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, ...

Standard seats on the carrier's larger aircraft will now have a seat pitch of just 31 inches, instead of 32 inches. (Seat pitch refers to the distance between an airplane seat and the seat in ...

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 ...