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[J. Alexander Jacocks]

This is being spoken by someone who is 6'0" tall and 275#, so take it as 
you may...

I think that the airlines especially, and most of corporate America 
partially, are unaware/unwilling/unable to adjust to the fact to the 
average person is considerably taller and wider then he/she was in 1900.

I hear the oft-stated statistic that the average male is 5'10" and 175#, 
and the average female 5'3" and 115#.  I seriously doubt that this is 
the case nowadays.

Due to genetic selection (women seem to like tall guys!) the human race 
is getting taller.  Due to more sedentary lives (most jobs just don't 
involve daily manual labor anymore!) the human race is getting wider.

We (or doctors/gov't, etc.) can prognosticate all we want about the 
problems with this, but we _do_ have to realize that it is a fait accompli.

Airlines, trains, cars, clothes, et. al. need to be sized to actual 
people and not statistics.  If we, as Americans, stand together, we 
_can_ force a change.

Just my 0.02 worth...

> On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 03:56:31PM -0400, Michael Schiller wrote:
> 
>>> airlines provided something more than microseats, unless you're willing 
>>> to pay like 3x the 'normal' fare (in order to fly in first class) I 
>>> would fully agree with you. When I bought my truck off ebay it was 
> 
> 
> When I flew to LA, I looked at first class, and the price was closer to
> (but not quite) 10x.  When I flew to Jamaica, the price was closer to
> 8x.