New Minimum seat pitch?

I wonder which “Lords” had to suffer the indignity of sitting in economy class or even worse, a low cost airline 😮

Isn’t it the same thing? :confused:

Not quite.

Seat pitch is the measurement from one point of a seat to a corresponding point on next seat. Legroom is measured between different points – basically, thick seatbacks, seatback pockets and so on cut into the legroom from the same seat pitch.

UK actually does legislate legroom rather than seat pitch: the current minimum is 26 inches legroom, which leads to minimum of 29 inches pitch. Other countries do not have such formal rule – but they do not seem to have seat pitches under 29 inches anyway.

The Lords are advising that the minimum should be raised.

Biggest issue for me is not pitch, but leg room. I’m only 5’10″/5’11”, yet my knees usually press into the back of the seat in front, and as I have chronic pain in my left knee from a mountain biking injury I suffered a few years ago, flying can be pretty uncomfortable for me. I mean I used to love flying, and as a kid I’d happily spend an entire crossing of the Atlantic glued to the window. But now, because of the pain and discomfort I can sometimes suffer, I’m being put off it. 🙁

Yes, not before time.

😀

Great News…;)