Frequent air travellers, especially those in economy class, will confirm this suspicion.
Airline seats are smaller, planes are crowded and room to breathe is at a premium.
The once-grand ocean liner in the sky has given way to a flying public bus. But there are signs today that air travel is heading for a new flight path. Perhaps the most ambitious proposal at present is Airport City, an artificial island 10 kilometres in diameter in the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands. It has been developed by the firm of Dutch architect guru Rem Koolhaas, acting as consultants to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport. For environmental, social and political reasons, Schiphol and other European hub-airports such as Frankfurt, London Heathrow and Paris have few options to expand as they reach capacity.