if you can't fit on one seat, you should have to pay for two.
the charge shouldn't be based on weight though.
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They're not forcing you to do anything, Southwest isn't Uncle Sam. Airlines don't have the power to force you to fly on their planes. It's a service. If you were being taxed to fund the airlines then you'd have an argument, but you're not so you don't.
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It's not based on weight, it's based on size. I believe the rule of thumb is if you need more than 1 belt extender you need to buy another seat.
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I powerlift. My weight fluctuates a lot, but it's usually in the area of 250lbs. I'm a very big guy and I take up a good chunk of room. I do my absolute best not to inconvenience anyone though. I don't put my arms in their area and I try and keep as compact as I can. I try and make the flight as comfortable as possible for people beside me, but it isn't going to the roomiest situation.
Remember, size can mean a lot of different things other than "fat".
This was about six years ago, so some of the details are a bit hazy in my memory but it all basically played out after the fact. I wasn't informed about the change in seating until after I was seated (definitely wasn't asked if I was okay with it) and was instructed to contact the airline after I got back home. Getting off the plane wasn't an option and making a scene was -definitely- not an option. I suppose if I had made a legal issue of it perhaps the outcome would have been different, but I'd have then been out more money than the seat cost.
Thankfully I've flown a few times since then and that scenario never happened again, so all's well that ends well I suppose.
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It's not only fat people, for the record. I'm 6'3, have broad shoulders due to competitive swimming for over 2 decades and I generally feel like shit when I'm flying, especially on smaller intra-Europe planes. While I have no issue buckling my seatbelt or anything, my knees are always pushing against the seat in front of me and unless I get an aisle seat and lean out (which is annoying with people running down the aisle, or the cabin crew pushing their cart around), my shoulders are always in the way of the passenger next to me.
I don't fear flying at all, in fact I absolutely love it (as long as it's a 2h flight max, longer than that and it becomes tedious, annoying and uncomfortable), but I always feel bad for the person sitting next to me.
Luckily for work I always travel business and the extra leg room does make a massive difference. I've started buying it on my personal flights as well, knowing it is overpriced as fuck.
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It's their fault they are fat (Usually, unless illness of some kind.), they should pay more.
Way to think like a corporate sheep. They *want* people like you to think like that. You realize that, don't you? (Wait, don't bother: The answer is already apparent.)
And yes, they do force you to fly by conspiring together to insure that all of them offer the same "service." Yet people like you continue to put the blame on the innocent, rather than aiming your ire at the ones who are actually guilty -- the airlines.
Congratulations. You're the problem.