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Can Airline Seating Get Any Worse? ‘A New Form of Torture Chamber’

Passengers have flooded the FAA with complaints about narrow seats and scant legroom; ‘It’s literally painful to fly today’

Like nearly everyone who boards a commercial airliner these days, Tina Dixon hates the tiny, uncomfortable seats. At 6-foot-6, she has a point.

“They are a new form of a torture chamber,” said Dixon, 62 years old, from Blackshear, Ga. “I don’t have a folding femur. Most people don’t.”

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