10secondsurvey: The point made earlier is very valid. If a regulatory minimum seat pitch of say 34" was introduced. the playing field would be levelled, and competition for economy pricing would no longer be based on providing teeny weeny seats, but on other competitive elements.
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Gradually little by little legroom is still being whittled away. For example, just a couple of years ago, BA advertised there economy pitch as 31", but they told us it will seem like 32"as their new style seats are thinner. Now they claim on the BA website, you get 'a comfortable (ha ha) 30-31" of legroom'. So now even BA is down to 30", and that is a proverbial f****** joke for anyone over 5'8" on even a medium flight.
How would you introduce this regulation? Would it apply only to G- registered carriers? If so, how could you justify to them the requirement that all their Y fares go up by 10% just to maintain the trip revenue from the Y cabin when their competitors would not have to do this? If not, through what legal medium would you enforce that on the airlines regulated by other countries?
BA Y pitch is generally still 31", which is fine for this 5' 11½" person, to HKG (regularly) and SYD (occasionally). I don't think it's been generally whittled down but I believe that there is a section immediately behind the 747's W cabins which has had to be squeezed a bit because of dimensional constraints. If you stick to the main Y cabin (Zone E, or Zone D in the low yield aircraft) you should be fine.