{"id":681550,"date":"2010-03-03T15:38:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T20:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002820"},"modified":"2010-03-03T16:27:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T21:27:24","slug":"continental-realizes-exit-row-seats-have-more-legroom-charges-more-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/681550","title":{"rendered":"Continental Realizes Exit Row Seats Have More Legroom, Charges More For Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/legroomm-thumb-375x500-37724.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>In an announcement this morning, Continental Airlines said that, starting March 17, they will be offering passengers &#8220;a new option allowing you to purchase seat assignments for unreserved, Economy Class seats that feature extra legroom.&#8221; But instead of readjusting the seats on their planes to allow for more space, they&#8217;re really just charging for sitting in an exit row.<\/p>\n<p>If you are willing to pay the premium for the extra 7-8 inches of legroom, you can do so when you check in, as early as 24 hours before scheduled take-off. You can not reserve these seats when you&#8217;re purchasing tickets (unless of course you&#8217;re buying tickets within 24 hours of take-off).<\/p>\n<p>Continental is not naming a specific price for the legroom seats, saying that the rate will vary depending on &#8220;the length of your flight, the date, and route.&#8221; So basically, whatever they want to charge.<\/p>\n<p>How much would you be willing to pay for these seats? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an announcement this morning, Continental Airlines said that, starting March 17, they will be offering passengers &#8220;a new option allowing you to purchase seat assignments for unreserved, Economy Class seats that feature extra legroom.&#8221; But instead of readjusting the seats on their planes to allow for more space, they&#8217;re really just charging for sitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RiK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}