Thomas Cook airlines - lack of leg room !!

Becles

We flew Monarch charter to Turkey and there wasn't much room. I felt uncomfortable and I'm only 5'4"!

Didn't help matters when we had a 1 year old baby with us travelling on our knees, and the couple in front insisted they had to have their seats reclined all the way :mad: It was a daytime flight too, it wasn't as if they were sleeping either, but they wouldn't put them back to normal position.

Saint_Chris

you want to do monarch to goa over 9 hours
they don't call it cattle class for nothing.

pavlovs_dog

i actually found the width of the seat worse than the pitch on TC, and at 9st and 5'7 im hardly fatty fatkins :eek: felt like we were elbow to elbow the whole way.

MarkyMarkD

I really don't understand why airlines don't ban their customers from reclining seats if there is a passenger behind. It is a complete liberty for someone to steal several inches of your space for their comfort.

andybrock

MarkyMarkD wrote: »

I really don't understand why airlines don't ban their customers from reclining seats if there is a passenger behind. It is a complete liberty for someone to steal several inches of your space for their comfort.

Couldnt agree more.When travelling over to thailand last easter couple in front(with emergency exit seats) reclined both seats fully back all the way.Guy was quite irate when i accidently put my knee into the back of his seat.

budgetflyer

I flew ONUR AIR to Turkey recently and was pretty impressed with the legroom, compared to Thomas Cook.
My summer flight to Tenerife with Thomas Cook was probably the most uncomfortable I've been on.
I would suffer it for maybe 2 +1/2 hrs to the Med, but not any longer flight.
Im pretty short, (5'8) but even my knees were touching the seat in front.

colmil

We flew back from Canada with MyTravel last year, now paft of Cooks and it was truly horribl

I will never travel with this Thomas Cook again.

nobblyned

MarkyMarkD wrote: »

I really don't understand why airlines don't ban their customers from reclining seats if there is a passenger behind. It is a complete liberty for someone to steal several inches of your space for their comfort.

What does losing three inches at face height matter? Doesn't impact on your leg space or impinge on the space you are occupying. Just makes for a slightly more comfortable position on long or night flights.

Becles

nobblyned wrote: »

What does losing three inches at face height matter?

It matters a lot when you've got a toddler on your knee!

laughing_cow

Becles wrote: »

We flew Monarch charter to Turkey and there wasn't much room. I felt uncomfortable and I'm only 5'4"!

We flew with Monarch to Turkey this year and my boyfriend couldn't fit in the space. He's 6' 3" but has long legs so he couldn't sit normally facing forward - he had to sit slightly sideways and put his legs across into my foot space!