Independent readers responding to Helen Coffey’s account of returning to air travel after seven years have been sharing plenty of flying horror stories of their own, with many arguing that the experience has become markedly worse in recent years.
Cramped seating and shrinking legroom featured heavily. Taller readers described squeezing into economy seats for hours on end, while others recalled paying hundreds of pounds extra for exit-row seats or abandoning long-haul travel altogether because of the discomfort. Many contrasted today’s packed flights with memories of roomier cabins, quieter airports and half-empty 747s.
