{"id":5388,"date":"2010-09-15T13:11:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T17:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2010-09-15T13:11:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T17:11:39","slug":"think-of-coach-seating-as-cattle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/15\/think-of-coach-seating-as-cattle-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Think of coach seating as &#8220;cattle class&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought it wasn&#8217;t possible to make air travel even worse, you just don&#8217;t think <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2010\/09\/15\/italian-company-unveils-saddle-seat-for-airlines\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">big enough<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Skyrider-aircraft-seats.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Skyrider aircraft seats\" width=\"620\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Skyrider-aircraft-seats.jpg 620w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Skyrider-aircraft-seats-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Skyrider-aircraft-seats-480x277.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Italian company Aviointeriors showed off its new \u201cSkyrider\u201d seat  at an airshow in California. The curious-looking seats have just 23-inches of space between the seat and the row in front of you. Current airline seating configurations gives you a seemingly spacious 30-inches or so.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve pretty much given up on air travel already, except for trans-Atlantic flights, but this little innovation would probably make me look for steerage class bookings on freighters . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought it wasn&#8217;t possible to make air travel even worse, you just don&#8217;t think big enough: Italian company Aviointeriors showed off its new \u201cSkyrider\u201d seat at an airshow in California. The curious-looking seats have just 23-inches of space between the seat and the row in front of you. Current airline seating configurations gives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[123,156,202],"class_list":["post-5388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-aircraft","tag-fail","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1oU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5390,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}