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Bad legroom to get worse as airlines stuff more passengers in a flight

To add more seats, Cebu Air is moving the plane's bathrooms

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Angus Whitley & Sybilla Gross | Bloomberg
Air travel is becoming a test of physical endurance. Seats have shrunk, legroom has vanished — and the airlines aren’t done with you yet.

Cebu Air, the Philippines’ biggest budget carrier, last month said it was moving kitchens and bathrooms on some of its new A330neos to cram in a record 460 seats, 20 more than the plane’s current maximum. It’s part of a broader push, particularly in Asia, to stuff more people into jets flying the most popular routes, according to aviation researcher Landrum & Brown.

“It’s all a matter of squeezing as many passengers as they can,” said Mathieu De

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