Airlines think big on seats
By Ed Harris, Evening Standard
Last updated at 11:52 25 February 2004
An airline is offering its larger passengers the chance to buy bigger seats.
The proposal is seen as the solution for the well-upholstered traveller who finds squeezing into economy torture but does not want to pay for an upgrade to business class.
Travellers who admit to being large or extra-large will be able to pay for a correspondingly bigger seat.
The plan by airline Maersk Air will see a small seat on its Scandinavian routes priced at £45 and a medium about £90 - with the extra-large starting at about £270.
Maersk is scrapping business class, where prices start at more than £500, to accommodate the new seating.
Barry Prior, Maersk's UK general manager, said there would be no obligation to buy a bigger seat.
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