"Frequent WestJet flyer Alexandra West said in an interview with CBC News that she first noticed she couldn't comfortably fit in their economy seats last year. "I used to love WestJet because I would buy their economy tickets, and I would have about two inches of clearance in front of my knee. So it was comfortable. It was just fine," West, who is a veterinarian living in central Alberta, said. "But now, I cannot sit in those seats with my legs straight forward.""
"The airline said in order to make air travel more available, it was trying new products, such as changing the seat pitch on certain rows in some of its aircraft to accommodate an extra row. Seat pitch is the measure of distance from the back of a seat to the back of the seat in front of it. The standard seat pitch for Canadian airlines is 30 inches."
Passengers reported noticeably tighter economy seating on some WestJet planes after the airline reconfigured aircraft to add extra rows. A frequent flyer said she could no longer sit with legs straight because seat clearance shrank from about two inches to virtually none. A viral video showed a passenger struggling to fit his legs in economy seating. WestJet said it tested new configurations and adjusted seat pitch on certain rows to accommodate an extra row. Seat pitch measures the distance from the back of one seat to the back of the seat in front, and the Canadian standard is 30 inches.
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