{"id":399821,"date":"2026-04-05T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airline-sacrifices-revenue-seats-most-spacious-economy-class-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T08:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:00:18","slug":"this-airline-sacrifices-revenue-seats-to-give-you-the-most-spacious-economy-class-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=399821","title":{"rendered":"This Airline Sacrifices Revenue Seats To Give You The Most Spacious Economy Class In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the vast majority of passenger airlines, economy class is fundamentally a math problem. For every extra inch of pitch, every wider armrest gap, and every missing middle seat, there needs to be a justification for the lost passenger capacity and thus the lost revenue potential. This is ultimately what makes <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"96475\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/japan-airlines\/\"  >Japan Airlines<\/a><\/span> (JAL) so interesting in 2026. Rather than squeezing the maximum possible number of passengers onto its long-haul flagships, JAL has spent years doing the exact opposite on key aircraft types. This is all while keeping its Boeing 777-300ERs at nine-abreast in economy and offering an eight-abreast layout on certain 787s, where nine-abreast functions as the industry norm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This carrier offers passengers exceptional legroom.<\/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":[396,476,2769,3183,9771,1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-basic-economy","category-economy-class","category-japan","category-legacy-carriers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399821","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=399821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399822,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399821\/revisions\/399822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}