From the Swiss (airline website):
You can reserve an Extra Legroom seat for an additional charge starting from CHF 33 per leg. The price is dependent on the duration of the leg.1
“Stretch” or even “segment” would sound odd too…
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That’s GOLD! 
Oh I know this. They are not talking about the leg as in extremity of the human body, they mean lag as in a leg of the journey.
Zürich to Hamburg is one leg, Hamburg to London another leg and the flight back London to Zürich is the last leg.
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Classic airline jargon, likely translated by DeepL from German.As LX don’t operate any multi-sector flights anymore they could use “flight”.
I’m surprised they don’t use “etape.”
Because thousands of monoglottic English people will be asking what a E-tape is?
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I wonder what they’d say if I asked to book it just for my left leg.
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Imagine having to calculate your trip if you were a one legged, pirate with an eye patch and a hook for a hand but you still need your emotional support parrot.
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Why overpay? Just book an aisle seat on the right side and stretch your left leg in an aisle during the flight.
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and that it will probably fall off half way.
Or the emergency exit seats. Some airlines charge extra for them, decent airlines don’t.
I had that only once. Oh what joy!
That’s what we do. We usually try to book two aisle seats opposite each other for myself and my husband so we both have the option to stretch our legs out into the aisle.
I was once sitting behind the row of emergency exit seats and our row had to swap with the original occupants of the exit seats because they were two elderly overweight parents (one with an arm in a sling) with a disabled adult daughter. They were really abusive to the flight attendants but by law they had to be physically able to react properly in an emergency.
I visited an aircraft maintenance base once in school. One of the activities to keep us engaged in the visit was precisely to open an emergency exit in a mock-up section of an airplane. The part is not impossibly heavy to lift, but heavy enough to require 2 functioning arms. Especially, when there’s the goal to evacuate in 90 seconds.
I don’t book the emergency row as you lose the under-seat storage. It has to go in the bin and by the time you realise this the only bin-space is 15 rows behind you. Give me an aisle seat, doesn’t matter where, but I prefer to be close to a non-emergency exit.
I travel with a sleep apnoea machine and my diabetes kit. I won’t be separated from the latter.
Used to be they took one look at OH’s loooong legs and asked him to sit in the exit aisle. Plus he looks like he can man the door.
" Mr Spiggott. You are deficient in it to the tune of one. Your right leg, I like. I like your right leg. A lovely leg for the role. That’s what I said when I saw you come in. I said, “A lovely leg for the role.” I’ve got nothing against your right leg. The trouble is – neither have you."
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Had a rubbish day and that really made me laugh out loud 
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