They are not all legs........

Pete s.

That'll be the eight legs, two heads and seven arms, Pete - I always told
you that you were a tad strange! ;-)

I just don't fit into the standard charter seat.

Pete S.

More space => higher prices.  I like cheap  :O)

David

No it's not.

Airlines have been taking the piss for years.

I weas once told that passengers are referred to as "Self loading
cargo".

Pete s.

If it's not available, that is because there isn't sufficient demand for it.
If lots of people were willing to pay many times more money for the flights
to get that extra legroom, they'd be happy to oblige and take your money.
And really, unless you're 7 foot tall you must have a very strange posture
to get your knees jammed into the seats infront of you.  It's not an ideal
size, we could all do with a bit more space, but it's sufficient for
everyone else.

David

Business class is not available

I'm not sure how having your knee jammed into the seat in front counts as
'more than enough'.

Its a five hour flight, plus of course the extra 15-30 minutes each end
before / after take off.

Just like any other 'economy' airline seat.  If you want a big seat with
lots of legroom, you can pay for business class.  If you don't want to pay
more, then you get a little less legroom (and frankly it's more than enough
space for a 4 hour flight).

David

Having recently flown to Hurghada and back in conditions cramped enough to
drive anyone terminally insane, and knowing how the flight was packed with
divers, I wondered if we might all write en-mass to Excel and persuade them
to do something about it.  I refer to the seating pitch, though they did of
course also try to stew us for a while in an airless sauna.    The policy of
squashing in seats so as to use up every last millimetre is self defeating
in that I shall now be more hesitatant in fluting on that route / with that
airline in future (and therefore so will at least some other people will
think the same, and so less income goes to Excel).  Just as bus companies
try to get an extra two or four people in, but at the price of forcing
everyone else to sit sideways on an otherwise two-person seat, and that last
extra row thereby actually halving the practical useable area, so I would
have thought Excel could take a row or two out and give everyone the
resulting extra 2-3", and they'd in the long run be better off for it.