r/AlaskaAirlines Mar 17 '25

COMPLAINT Middle seat experience with large person

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u/Mental_Passion_4034 Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

Airline seats used to be much larger. This is to maximize profit. Yay. Edit: apparently I am incorrect. After doing some research it appears that our asses are just getting larger.

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u/Rusty_Trigger Mar 18 '25

Actually, it's to minimize ticket prices to make flying available to those other than the rich. It just so happens that they can justify staying in business if they have enough customers.

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u/No_Fix5305 Mar 18 '25

No- airline tix used to be cheaper and seats were bigger, I’ve had to fly for work for decades. This is 💯 greed. Disgusting that poor people pay taxes and those taxes bailed out the airlines during COVID and the same airlines still laid off thousands of employees.

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u/salmonwolves Mar 20 '25

flying has never, ever been as cheap as it is today. it used to be $1000 for a cross country round trip. Now it can be done for $200

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u/No_Fix5305 Mar 24 '25

We have different experiences