I REFER to Tuesday's report, 'SIA to charge for more legroom'. As a frequent traveller, I am often lucky to have an exit row seat on many airlines, including Singapore Airlines.

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Money doesn't need to make sense.

SIA is being ulterior about its motives - that is why we ferret out its true intentions about charging like those sickening budget airlines.
checked luggage - pay fee, priority seat or express boarding pay more, use credit card payment pay admin charge, food drinks pay $, blanket pay, etc
Maybe those angmohs with longer legs can be conned into paying more for legroom.

Perhaps the new CEO & management does not understand SIA. People don't pay extra for SQ for each of the small stuff like toothbrush, entertainment...but for entire package.

Well, why must travel with SIA when there are so many other choices available ? I am sure other airlines are offering as comparable services as SIA, if not better. No point discussing this issue in the DB, just act and hit them where they hurt most, $$$, then probably they will really think about this policy.

They are a business. Got chance to make money, they will.

ASTHMA AND ALLERGIESIt is estimated that 12 million children suffer from asthma , and several thousand die every year. Let us declare an end to asthma in less than five years . Let us save children from the constant fear of suffocation because they do not recognize they are thirsty for water ! Asthma and allergies are indicators that the body has resorted to an increase in production of the neuratransmitter histamine, the sensor regulator of water metabolism and its distribution in the human body. It is recognised that asthmatics have an increase in histamine content of their lung tissue and that it is the histamine that regulates the bronchial mucle contraction. Since one of the site for water loss through evaporation is in the lungs, bronchial constriction produced by histamine means less water evaporation during the act of breathing - a simple natural (by the human body) maneuver to preserve the body water. Histamine is an agent that, apart from its water regulatory role, has responsibilities in antibacterial, antiviral, and anti-foreign agents (chemicals and protein) defence systems in the human body. At a normal level of water content of the body, these actions are held at an imperceptive or unexaggerated level. At a dehydrated state of the body, to the point that the histamine activity becomes exaggerated for water regulation, an immune system activation of histamine-producing cells will release an exaggerated amount of the transmitter that is held in storage for its other functions. It has been shown in animal models that histamine production in histamine-generating cells will decrease with an increase in the daily water intake. No other fluid can be substituted for plain water. Both of these conditions should be regulated with an alert and determined increase in water intake. On average, these conditions respond after one to four weeks of waterregulation of the body. Mr. Peck, an asthmatic since childhood , who also became sensitive to all sorts of "allergens," is no longer in fear of these health problems. (His personnal letter is available for your viewing upon request. E-mail your me.)Mr. Paturis also testified to the fact that his wife's allergic condition became less problematic.Jose Rivera,M.D., had for years sufferedfrom allergies and asthma . He was severely allergic to cats. In fact, he would never go to a house where a catwas also kept. It seems he at one time got very sick after being exposed to a cat. As a result of using the new information about the relationship of dehydration to excess histamine production in the body , he has totally recovered from both of these condistions. To top it all, he now treats asthmatics with water and salt (sea salt).

Thanks `itsmeNow' for letting me see the light and enlightened by your asthma and allergy parable. I got the message. The moral of the parable is people can make all kinds of very pseudo-scientific reasons to push their unconventional treatment - like SIA can cite all kinds of excuses to make money and make it sound so right just like using water and sea salt to cure cat allergies! it is up to the believer to lap it all up.
solved your zen koan, itsmeNow.

While I don't disagree with this sorts of policy, I think SIA seems to be penny wise but pound foolish here.

Best let the lesser carriers squeeze these types of profits.

Singapore Airlines is not interested in Economy class passengers. According to Skytrax, Winner for Best Cabin Crew, Best Economy Class is Asiana Airlines. Even Inflight Entertainment Award goes to Emirates.

http://www.worldairlineawards.com