This week, Canadian airline WestJet became one of the first to try to switch the ability to recline into a paid “perk” by announcing that it was reconfiguring 43 of its Boeing 737-8 MAX and 737-800 (BA) planes to have what it classifies as a “refreshed range of seating options.”
Anyone remember when Air Canada really was a great airline?
The article is about WestJet.
If charge by the minute if I were them.
I’d rather pay for preventing the front passenger from reclining into me.
Then he pays even more to recline even further. Will you match the $15?
Nah, they’ll alternate reclinable and non-recinable rows - just for fun.
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I’m actually fine with them removing ALL seat reclining options.
The tiny angle it goes back is not worth have the idiot ahead of you firback the seat while you are eating
Stop posting clickbait.
Put the proper noun in the goddamn headline.
The airline industry figured out long ago that people will suffer the most miserable flights possible in order to save money but they will absolutely take free comfort upgrades. If they do this it’s to save money and make the flight cheaper because if other airlines offer reclining seats at the same price customers will take those instead as a free upgrade.
Please explain how this saves them money? All I see is finding ways to upcharge customers for what used to be standard options, while maybe cramming in one more row of passengers.
Cramming in one more row of passengers means you get more passengers per flight => each passenger costs less to fly.
I don’t actually know if they’re going to fit in one more row though. Maybe the non-reclining seats are lighter in weight? That would save money on fuel costs.
If the system for optional reclining seats actually adds weight to the plane then they’re taking a gamble that enough passengers will pay extra for the reclining to pay for the additional fuel costs. That could backfire!
In a lot of ways this seems like an experiment that could backfire, even if it doesn’t risk increasing flight costs on some flights. Only time will tell!
You mean “to increase profits”…
That’s less specific. You can increase profits by saving money (reducing costs) or you can increase profits by selling more (increasing sales).
This plan to take away reclining seats is unlikely to increase sales!
Fast forward to the part where they make you pay for your own breathable air…
I had to really make sure this was not the Beaverton, I prefer sitting at the very back so I do not get the reclining seats. Unless the plane is not loaded enough or whatever the heck I get free upgrades to first class.
Another hack I have to get to the front of the plane is hobble into the airport with a recovering dislocated knee. Make it appear real good maybe relocate your other kneecap a few times in front of the check in clerk!
The hell they are…
Ugh. What a pain. Can’t they just make it a subscription instead?
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Good, about time.
Psst! “Reclining” an airline seat tilts it 5 degrees back to almost where it’s comfortable like a normal non-reclining chair. They moved their “normal” forward so they could jam you right up against the row ahead that much more.
Westjet is poised to move from #2 worst airline in the developed world to #1, but Canada’s only other national airline will surely reclaim the #1 worst airline in the developed world spot if it does lose it to #2.
These are the foreign-owned airlines serving Canada, kids. Fly them only when you must.
I’m ok with that. Make it $800 for all I care. I have long legs. Fuck people who recline their seats.
I have back and neck problem, I say fuck people with long legs, I gotta recline on long flights.
Your attitude kinda sucks, the airlines are the actual fucktwats who make our seating experience completely uncomfortable, not people who have different needs like you and I.
I am a person, and fuck people.
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So fuck you!
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