Originally Posted by
Roger
Its nice to hear the stories about people's experiences as a passenger on AIR, please keep them coming.
Even I would concede that there's too many accountant's running these airlines now...whatever happened to the romance of flight ?
Its all about shifting people from point A to Point B in the most efficient and effective manner. Visiting AIR's exhibition at Te Papa and sitting in the internal mock-up they have of the original Solent flying boat and feel the difference in seat sizes and atmosphere compared to modern planes and experience what I'm referring too. In the same exhibition they had seats from the new Dreamliner, Business first, which the stewardess manning the exhibition proudly told me was first class and premium economy. I was underwhelmed by both.
Accountants have designed these seats I tell ya !! and its the same for virtually all airlines with the notable exception of Singapore which still has really decent proper sized seats in economy, business and first class...wonder how long that will last ?
Please excuse these ramblings from a full sized XXL bloke, probably doesn't matter for those that fit the average seat profile of the average passenger which I believe is 78 kg's ? That said several slightly larger than 78kg people at the same AIR exhibition were also underwhelmed with AIR's new premium economy and business seats with one commenting, what's so premium about that !!
Maybe they've gone a little too far in the direction of efficiency with their fit-out ?