{"id":284860,"date":"2019-07-29T06:02:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T06:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=284860"},"modified":"2019-07-29T06:02:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T06:02:18","slug":"think-legroom-on-planes-is-bad-now-it-is-about-to-get-much-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/think-legroom-on-planes-is-bad-now-it-is-about-to-get-much-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Think legroom on planes is bad now? It is about to get much worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air travel is becoming a test of physical endurance. Seats have shrunk, legroom has vanished &#8212; and the airlines aren\u2019t done with you yet. <\/p>\n<p>Cebu Air Inc., the Philippines\u2019 biggest budget carrier, last month said it was moving kitchens and bathrooms on some of its new A330neos to cram in a record 460 seats, 20 more than the plane\u2019s current maximum. It\u2019s part of a broader push, particularly in Asia, to stuff more people into jets flying the most popular routes, according to aviation researcher Landrum &amp; Brown. <\/p>\n<p>Legroom in Economy Varies on Long-Haul Flights <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all a matter of squeezing as many passengers as they can,\u201d said Mathieu De Marchi, a Bangkok-based consultant at the firm. \u201cIt\u2019s only going to get worse over the next decade.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air travel is becoming a test of physical endurance. Seats have shrunk, legroom has vanished &#8212; and the airlines aren\u2019t done with you yet. Cebu Air Inc., the Philippines\u2019 biggest budget carrier, last month said it was moving kitchens and bathrooms on some of its new A330neos to cram in a record 460 seats, 20 more than the plane\u2019s current maximum. It\u2019s part of a broader push, particularly in Asia, to stuff more people into jets flying the most popular routes, according to aviation researcher Landrum &amp; Brown. Legroom in Economy Varies on Long-Haul Flights \u201cIt\u2019s all a matter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}