Originally Posted by
Heathrow Harry
the airlines fit them so they can squeeze in more seats....... you don't get extra leg room - just more bodies to checkin and get on and off the plane and a rotten seat as well................
To get even one more row in a 737/A320, the new seat would have to enable seat pitch to be reduced by an inch-and-a-half (i.e. 2 inches in practice).
No amount of seat redesign would achieve that without also involving a significant reduction in legroom.