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dreamnightwind

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7. Yeah, it's a real problem

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Fri May 8, 2015, 02:18 AM

May 2015

I am only about 6' tall, so normal height, but have long legs, and it can be absolute hell getting through a flight.

The blood clot risk is real, it happened to me on a long drive not a flight, I drive more than I fly, but I can literally not move my legs on most flights, for the duration of the flight, except when I get up. That's insane, I don't even approve of shipping chickens in conditions llike that. I avoid flying whenever possible.

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Safety risk of shrinking airline seats questioned [View all] question everything May 2015 OP

It sure would be nice if the FAA set a humane leg room minimum. nt SunSeeker May 2015 #1

The FAA? Do something? Angleae May 2015 #2

One of my problems when I fly is that SheilaT May 2015 #3

I'm even shorter than you are. I am extremely uncomfortable in planes especially in the JDPriestly May 2015 #5

Last summer I flew for the first time since 2007. SheilaT May 2015 #10

Thank you. JDPriestly May 2015 #12

Ye$ but that leave$ out one $uper crucial factor that the airline$ are con$idering, here Warren DeMontague May 2015 #4

We need alternative forms of transportation. In California, the rail service is wonderful if JDPriestly May 2015 #6

Elon Musk's Hyperloop! dreamnightwind May 2015 #8

Yeah, it's a real problem dreamnightwind May 2015 #7

Flying has gotten horrible. I'm short, but I sit on the aisle now. The issue of DVT is a real one... Hekate May 2015 #9

a friend of mine got a thrombosis on a flight mopinko May 2015 #11