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5 (sometimes surprising) ways flying affects your body
Gus Ruballo You land. Your throat feels like sandpaper. Your head is heavy. Your eyes sting. You've been sitting still for eight hours… so why does your body feel like it just ran a marathon? Most travelers accept this as the price of flying. But there's nothing inevitable about it. These symptoms have specific, well-documented causes — and understanding them is the first step to actually doing something about them. Here are five things flying is doing to your body right now. Some I´ll bet…
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WIDER SEATS FOR OBESE PASSENGERS: "Squeezing into a 'cattle class' airline seat is about to get a lot easier for the overweight traveller – but at the expense of more slimline passengers." -- The Daily Mail, UK
Here's how they'll do it: "
"Rather than have rows of three seats, each 18in wide, Airbus proposes making the aisle seat 20in wide and reducing the width of the two others by an inch each.
"The new configuration would also allow airlines to impose an extra charge for the premium seats, with Airbus estimating that a £6.50 fee could generate an extra £2 million for each aircraft over 15 years."
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"Never Sit Next to Boring People Again." What do you think of these new sites that match you up with a flying mate? http://www.tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/never-sit-next-to-boring-pe...
Delta's website was charging its Frequent Flyers (people like me) more than ordinary passengers :( Our member, Charlie was quoted in the TravelDailyNews as saying -
“It would appear from reports that, one of the benefits of belonging to Delta’s SkyMiles program is the privilege to pay more for your airfare,” said Charlie Leocha, Director of CTA"
This has most medallion members pretty upset. I wonder if other airlines do the same ?
$100 per carry-on bag -- this just in from Miami's CBS affiliate: "Miramar-based Spirit Airlines has never met a fee it wasn’t willing to charge passengers. Now, the budget airline will hike some carry-on baggage fess to $100.
"Spirit Air currently charges $45 for a carry-on bag. But as of November 6, customers who wait to pay the fee at the gate will pay $100. The fee will apply to any bag that has to be placed in the overhead bin.
"The price for a carry-on bag paid for at an airport kiosk will increase from $40 to $50."
To what extent are other airlines going to follow?
While it has been known for a while that cellphone usage does not interfere with modern avionics; and some airlines have mulled allowing use (not in the US), I would rather, that the plane be a sanctity of chatter-free zone for the duration of the flight.
Incidently the airlines allow laptop internet use via wifi on-board, but still prohibit voice through skype/google-voice/x-lite/etc..
Certainly, airlines have vented revenue interests in outrageously priced voice communication via those handsets that are by your seat. Why would they ban an app in my mac ? If I can get audio/video why not skype ? or embedded the google voice player in gmail ?
Here's the latest volley in the debate over whether you should be able to use a cellphone on a airlines. Do you agree with the author? http://www.tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/saying-i-love-you-at-35-000...
You ask if in reality passengers care more about service than price. The answer here in Europe appears to be price. Almost all the British appear to be flying here on discount airlines.
Purdue University's annual Airline Passenger Survey reports that the most important consideration to flyers today is customer service. But trips I've taken on planes where passengers chose the sardine can seats instead of paying a few dollars more for premium economy make me ask: Is customer service really passengers' most important consideration, or is price all that really matters?
FAA: Air travel to double over next 20 years but ticket prices will rise slowly. Really? What about fuel?
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