Airline Math: Jet Blue Increases Leg Room

Posted on December 19, 2006

“There are things we know that we don’t know.”
Donald Rumsfeld

I have always thought airline math was as twisted as political rhetoric. As someone who was forced at quill-point to study the value and foibles of statistics and who for many years lived down the rabbit hole of the broadcasting business (a little too close to those Cheeze-It-eating Nielsen families for my comfort), I always look at studies and spreadsheets with furrowed brow. Especially among airlines where I envision evil elves in dark rooms measuring peanuts with calipers calculating that decreasing goober circumference a millimeter will cut costs system wide…oh… $2.95 per day.

Jet Blue’s logic in increasing legroom late last week got me thinking.
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