Things I always wanted to know as a PILOT

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Apologies, but if I may pick you up on something...

You know, when I'm on a really cramped econ short haul flight, I just chuckle when I hear crew say the main concern of the airline is our safety. If that were the case, we wouldn't have seats at wing exit rows, and we wouldn't be crammed in like sardines.

After the Manchester 737 Fire, a lot of work was done on evacuations, mostly at the Cranfield Institute of Technology but also at other agencies including the FAA.

I'm afraid both documents linked to are quite lengthy - for the purposes of this thread though, it is worth pointing out that, surprisingly, fewer seats at the over-wing exit rows do not necessarily mean faster evacuation times, and 28" seat pitch (i.e. minimum) does not necessarily mean a lesser chance of survival. Please remember that all large transport aircraft have to perform a full evac trial, in 90 seconds, using only half the exits, at the maximum passenger capacity