And where do you think suing an airline for
"injury or illness" is going to get the travelling public as a whole Kaptain M ?
Its not rocket science here, airlines are in the transportation biz to make a buck and if they cannot then they will shut up shop.
If airlines were made to increase seat pitch then there will be less bums on seats equals less income and less profit for the shareholders.
Now if you owned shares in a business that was not making a fair return on your investment, what would you do?
Put the ticket price up? yep could do that but then the punters won't travel now cos the seats are too expensive and then they will go and fly with airline B because they can jam more people into their spam can.
The ONLY way to increase seat pitch and still make a profit is to build more efficient a/c and that its a long time process.
Cut costs I hear you say, well how are you going to do that in any meaningfull way?
Fuel is up, salaries are too low as it is so not much scope in those 2 areas.
The only way it is going to happen is to have a swag of 380 size (or bigger) a/c in the sky to reduce seat costs , but that is not going to be viable for short haul ops.
my 2 cents for what its worth.