First you pay more to fly if you are too fat, now you pay more if you are too tall!

Continental Airlines has announced plans to introduce a £130 extra charge for customers who want a seat with more legroom. In a new scheme starting on March 17, economy customers will be able to pay the excess charge at check-in to ensure they are allocated an exit-row seat with an extra 7 inches – that’s 17 centimetres – of legroom than standard seats. The prices of the seats with extra legroom will vary depending on the length of a flight and popularity of the route, but the excess charge on a return flight from London to Newark, New York, would be £130.

Continental frequent-flyers who obtain at least 25,000 air miles a year, and those they travel with, will be able to request an exit-row seat for no extra cost. The number of seats with extra legroom will vary depending on the size of the plane but Continental, the fourth-largest U.S. airline, has no plans to reconfigure its planes to add more seats with extra space. Continental operators insisted the new fee is simply a way of giving customers more if they are willing to pay for it.

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