Plane Frustrated

Charles Lockwood’s “Finding the Best Plane Seats” (Travel Insider, July 12) hit a sensitive nerve on my 6-foot, 6-inch body. I am stuck with this God-given frame, and no diet will shrink me into most plane seats. All points in Lockwood’s article were fine observations. However, while bulkhead seats give knee room, they restrict stretching out one’s feet.

For me, the only reasonably comfortable seats are in the emergency row. Lockwood did not mention that most, if not all, airlines only make these seats available the day of departure, claiming they must (by law) observe such passengers as physically capable of assisting opening the emergency door and helping others exit in an emergency.

Short of arriving at check-in when they open for the day, I have not found any means of obtaining these emergency-row seats. Yet I have boarded planes where two little elderly ladies, weighing less than 100 pounds each, occupy these seats. Frustrating!

WALT JELLUM

Anaheim