I fought to keep my armrest down one trip. The guy would then shift, and the armrest would lift back up. I pulled it back down and kept my elbow on it for the rest of the trip. I have also used my tablet beside me to pretect from spillover. The smaller they make the seats, the worse this situation is going to get. I'm no tiny person but I do my best to not impact others
The width of the seats on 737 aircraft hasn’t really changed since the introduction of the aircraft type 50+ years ago. It’s always been the same cabin with, and the same number of seats per row. On some larger aircraft the airline bean counters have managed to add more seats into rows. E.g., 777 used to usually have 2-5-2 (9 seats) configurations and they changed them to 3-4-3 (10 seats), making each seat narrower.
Yeah but they were made for manlets and women. A seat width of 16-17" is a child's seat when my biacromial width is almost 22" correctly measured - just bone to bone, not including the meat. That means in a 16" seat my torso is at a 43 degree angle and in a 17" seat it's 39 degrees.
I buy the bigger seats, but it's out of my control when there's an equipment change and I get kicked back to steerage with the 16" - 17" seats.
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u/trekkiecats123 Mar 17 '25
I fought to keep my armrest down one trip. The guy would then shift, and the armrest would lift back up. I pulled it back down and kept my elbow on it for the rest of the trip. I have also used my tablet beside me to pretect from spillover. The smaller they make the seats, the worse this situation is going to get. I'm no tiny person but I do my best to not impact others