Earlier this week I blogged about the Skyrider airplane seatsbeing marketed by Aviointeriors, an Italian company which supplies seats to many major airlines.
These new seats have only 23-inches of space from seatback to seatback, whereas most coach seats have at least 30 inches.
The key is that the Skyrider seats are saddle-shaped and pitched slightly forward, so that the knees of long-legged people start to fit under the seat in front of them.
I decided to check them out for myself at the Aircraft Interiors Expo Americas in Long Beach(yes, there is a show just for airplane seats) and I interviewed Aviointeriors' Fredrik Meloni.
Meloni suggests that if people are too big to fit in the seats, they "have to lose some weight."