I don't think there's much inconvenience in the idea at all. Everyone gets a seat, just not necessarily the seat he might want. No seat on a plane is like prison (except if one were forced to sit the durance of the flight in the loo), so I disagree with your objection.
There's a reason fatties ask for window seats.
LOL!
Yeah, NO ONE would possibly object to a fully-regimented "experience". I guess that's why the prisons are full to overflowing, eh?
One last time: MOST people do NOT want to subject themselves to that sort of misery -- and they won't! But hey, write your congresscreep and try to get it pushed through. The sooner you folks finish the job of turning air travel into an absolutely repugnant form of abuse, the sooner Americans will return to the kind of travel we used back in the '50s.
It was a much nicer day and age. I know, I was there. There's NOTHING like a family trip in the car. Nothing! And the sooner people flip the final bird to the airline industry, as they call AAA for a "triptic" to their destination, the sooner this country will be to finding its roots. Thousands if not millions of families will for the first time get to know each other, as they turn away from the "cattlecars in the sky."