Word: legroom
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...much for the romance of air travel. "We had no legroom, everyone was grum-py and the air stewardess was unfriendly," says Patrick Schepers, 13, of Peer, Belgium, after a recent long-haul flight. "It's the cocktail of ingredients," says David Dison, 46, a South African lawyer and frequent traveler. "The cabin pressure, the lack of legroom, the lack of air." But airlines' attempts to share blame with passengers may hold some water. Ishii says she knows she should have walked around, but stayed in her seat so as not to disturb her husband and his neighbor. And some...
...Check with your doctor. Once inside the plane, make sure you have as much room to move your legs as possible?a good reason to store cabin baggage in the overhead compartment rather than under the seat in front of you where it can take up precious legroom. During the flight, drink lots of bottled water, avoid alcohol, straighten and move your legs and even consider wearing support stockings, which can improve blood flow in the veins. While some doctors suggest moving around the cabin every half-hour or so, many airlines recommend doing gentle exercise in your seat?both...
...been a great year for the airline industry--or for the millions of travelers who have been delayed, stranded and otherwise mistreated. But the latest airline-travel woe hits passengers right where they sit: in those notoriously cramped seats. Not only are modern airline-seating arrangements woefully lacking in legroom, some believe they also may even be deadly in certain circumstances. Three passengers are suspected of having succumbed in the past month to complications stemming from sitting too long in cramped airline seats...
Headline writers are calling it "the economy-class syndrome," underscoring the striking difference between the legroom in first- and business-class cabins and that in the rest of the plane. In a widely reported case last week, an apparently healthy British woman in her late 20s took a 20-hr. flight from Australia to London and collapsed at Heathrow Airport 10 minutes after arrival. She died within hours. An autopsy showed that she had developed deep venous thrombosis--a blood clot in her leg--that lodged in one of her lungs...
...lack thereof--is regarded by most flyers as scarcely more pleasant than root-canal work. To counter that image, American Airlines plans to yank enough seats from all of its domestic fleet by the end of the year to allow coach passengers up to an extra 4 in. of legroom. United offers a similar program in its first 10 rows but only for those holding full-price economy tickets or for premier frequent flyers...