October 26, 2015: The reclining seat issue is not going away—especially with most carriers installing smaller seats (while travelers bodies expand) to jam more uncomfortable travelers onto planes. Here’s a prediction from your Travel Curmudgeon—in the not too distant future one of the low cost carriers – like Frontier who is barely hanging on and Spirit who charges for just about everything they can already – are going to start charging for a reclining seat! Now that might actually cause a public and government outcry to rein in some of these “incremental travel fees” that add costs to tickets and are worth “millions” of easy dollars to airline profits! Seems to me that it’s time for airline travelers to “take back” some comfort, don’t you think?

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