[exhilaration]

While you may not care very much about it, the airlines know they can use "wider seats" to appeal to the growing number of larger individuals [1] around the world. That phrase alone might be enough to get those individuals' travel dollars (or rupees) over their competitors. You can bet Boeing and Airbus are stressing this in their presentations to the airlines.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/health/obesity-study-10-p...