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Not to mention if you happen to sit in the middle of the economy class in a A380 the food will come to you late. The economy class is huge.
The rear is even worse, they ran out of chicken every time they reached me.
Well every plane carrier , can "specify" the configuration of seating they want for the plane
Every plane company is asked the configuration question and based on the needs the seats are configured
If PIA wants to cram people up in economy style setup that is just too old fashioned - it is negative for passenger satisfaction (specially on 10-15 hour flights)
The only thing 'new' would be if they really introduce High End configuration for seating for all plane
QUALITY vs number of seats , raise the standard of flight and passenger satisfaction
They can and exactly because of that it's never gonna happen. The passenger cramping is the modern trend, long gone are the days when flying was supposed to be glamorous, no matter how lavish the suites are on the new A380s. It's basic economics,
Operating aircraft, let alone airlines, has become a very expensive endeavour. You don't see big names tanking every other day just for nothing. To stay afloat airlines need to earn a certain amount of revenue every flight to keep it viable. In such a situation the operator has only two options 1) Increase the fair or 2) Maximise the number of passengers per flight, period. Hence, the revenue extraction schemes in air travel are some of the most vicious in all of the industries. The seat class differentiation is only a small part of extracting the maximum consumer surplus, systematic fluctuation in the fair (selective pricing) is the biggest. Keep this in mind when you realise that most of the travellers in the world are not well to do. The majority of the modern day travellers is far more concerned with the fair than they are with the comfort level of the seat. These travellers are (pretty much) already paying the maximum that they are willing to (selective pricing) and an increase in the fair would result in loss for the airlines. And it is exactly why an aircraft has a minuscule number of first and business class seats with higher fairs, fairs that would increase exponentially out of reach if the whole aircraft was fitted with them just to make the flight break even. Every extra square inch in a flight increases the fair, they even charge you more for the seats with more leg room in economy, e.g. exit row seats. Don't forget, despite the shoddy service, PIA is already not a cheap airline.
This is why airlines try to employ a combination of both option 1 and 2 with option 2 taking the much bigger share. All the airlines cramp there economy class and try to cramp their business class as much as they can.
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