The Raven

On my way to LA

I'm going to attend a Sun internal conference in Monrovia, CA next week. To give myself a chance to accomodate to the nine hour timeshift from Munich, Germany, I took the plane yesterday. And (as always) the plane over the atlantic had the seat rows arranged tightly together and the flight was fully booked. The thing that IMO sucks most in the plane is the abjustable seat back. I'm 191 cm tall (more than 6'3" ) and a twelve hour flight is always a horror for me. If the person sitting in front of me then bends his seat back, I'm completely squeezed into my seat and immediately unable to:

• eat: I can't even see the tablett anymore
  
• work: neither with the laptop nor read a large-scale whitepaper
  
• watch the video: the display becomes unreadable because of the angle

This time I couldn't even stand up from my seat without almost breaking my legs.

Dear Airline Companies: On oversea flights please disestablish the adjustable seats, assign seat in a front row or (even better) business class seats to people like me, who can't afford or are not allowed to travel business class

Posted at 03:13PM Feb 11, 2007 by Armin Wallrab in Personal  |  Kommentare[1]