{"id":389238,"date":"2026-03-19T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/economy-seats-worlds-greatest-pitch-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:00:18","slug":"5-economy-seats-with-the-worlds-greatest-pitch-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=389238","title":{"rendered":"5 Economy Seats With The World\u2019s Greatest Pitch In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seat pitch measures the distance between rows of seats on an aircraft. Like seat width, this is an area where airlines do have a significant amount of control over how they configure their aircraft. On <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255454\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/narrowbody\/\"  >narrowbody<\/a><\/span> aircraft, airlines can play with the space between the armrests a little, but at the end of the day, all Airbus A320s and Boeing 737s will be seated six abreast in economy class. <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2051119\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/real-reason-some-flyers-saying-air-travel-unbearable\/\" >Many low and ultra-low-cost airlines configure their seating rows at around 28 to 29 inches<\/a><\/span> (71.1 to 73.7 cm), which is about as restricted in legroom as it gets, and is what Ryanair passengers have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most airlines offer 30-32 inches of seat pitch in economy class, although a few can get up to 34 inches on select seats in some configurations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,3183,1236,1147,3086,495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-economy-class","category-japan-airlines","category-jetblue","category-seat","category-worldwide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389239,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389238\/revisions\/389239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}