Airlines reject proposition for larger seats, chose to make seats smaller instead Earlier this week I was reading the news paper and found an article regarding the ongoing debate over seats on airplanes. As we all know, typical seats in coach are spacious for us and unbearable for fats. According to the article, there was a push to increase the amount of room provided in order to accommodate America's obesity crisis. A vote took place and the decision was made to decrease the space in the seats, rather than to increase. I'm not sure if this is a win or lose, as now when I fly I will have even MORE of my personal space invaded by the fellow passenger's excess spillage. Maybe smaller seats will encourage flying fats to drop the weight? Snowball's chance in hell!