Want best seat on flight? Shell out more

Bangalore: No more nightmares about feeling cramped and suffocated when you have to take a longish domestic flight. Especially, if you are flying a low-cost airline.
Just pay an additional Rs 300, and get yourself either an emergency row seat or a seat in the first row of the aircraft. This way you would enjoy additional legroom of 3 to 4 inches, which can make a difference to your comfort level. In some aircraft the additional legroom is about 9 inches.
As most Indian carriers have a fleet of either Airbus A320s or Boeing 737-800s/900s aircraft, there will be two emergency exit doors in the middle on either side of the aircraft. Thus there will be two rows, or 12 seats, with greater legroom.
IndiGo Airlines is the one that has started this practice. According to travel agents, there is a huge demand for these extra legroom seats from frequent flyers.
Spicejet and Go Air charge passengers Rs 50 for booking a seat online. So, if you are worried about getting stuck in a middle seat, or you are the kind that likes a window or aisle seat, this is an option for you.
The emergency row seats and the front seats are however not an option to choose from. Air Asia, which connects nine Indian cities to Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries, charges Rs 1,520 for what it calls ‘hot seats’, which are located in the front rows and at the emergency rows.
13/04/10 Anshul Dhamija/Times of India

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Apr 2010, New Apr 2010