Honestly, it's more than just being fat. I am 6'5" and I have a tough time flying in a coach seat because my legs are too long. Any flight more than a few hours becomes painful. I usually end up paying more for the leg room. They have stuffed so many seats onto a plane that flying has become terrible.
It surely can be a painful and embarrassing experience, I don't doubt that, but then again who's the one putting themselves into the position in the first place? Everyone who's flown even once knows quite well the space there is in the economy class. Flying among many other things (amusement parks, anyone?) has been blurred in people's minds quite badly. It's not your human right to fit in the economy seat, is it? I know the social stigma behind this can be quite nasty and unnecessary, I'm not supporting that. But could there be at least some involvement from the victim party here, no? They sell business class tickets as well. But so expensive!! Exactly, flying was a privilege, not a right to begin with.
If you are fat or have wide shoulders you could get one of those airline credit cards. Then use it to upgrade to first class on flights with the points you accumulate from using it. Airline economy seats are 18" at best. Even people without those issues get those cards for the upgrades.
Or 250lb 6'6
I can barely walk through a standard door without grazing my knuckles because my shoulders are just that wide. If I was reduced to a skeleton I would still be elbowing my fellow passengers. Boeing needs to start making seats for adults, not malnourished toddlers, and to Hell with the airlines' ridiculous capacity demands. It's called "coach" class not "sardine" class.
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I'm 6'4" 220lb and I can see myself being an issue for airlines. A 5'5" woman at 200lbs would be considered overweight, so what does that mean for me? This is where you get government to step in and regulate seat sizes, so this nonsense doesn't just end up costing people money cause airlines want to make weight an issue.
X is me, Y is you.
|xxxxx||yyyyy| <--We each pay for 1 seat, we each get 1 seat.
|xxxyy||yyyyy| <--We each pay for 1 seat, but you get part of mine because you cant all fit in yours.
Solution: Buy enough seats to fit yourself in or pay me for the part of mine you are taking away.
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Just going to throw this out there. Recently flew from LA to Sydney. A guy, about 6'6 is seated next to me. I have the window seat, he's in between me and the aisle seat. He's so tall and his arms so long, his freaking elbows are sticking into me for the entire 15 hour flight. It was a horrible experience.
If we're going to penalize the chubby people, lets also get the really tall people too.
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People do get charged more for extra hand luggage.
Its calculated on weight / size.
Although i agree its not nice for fat people to be crammed into one seat, its also not nice to be sitting next to fat people who invade personal space.
I would demand a refund if i was forced to use half a seat because fat person was using up all the room.
Why shouldnt i?
ok the way I see it: weight limit, if it's to save fuel or something like that is stupid.
however, if a person is too big for one seat, he / she should pay for second one, because airlines surely going to sell that seat for someone else, and what did that skinny person did to suffer being sat on by fat person?
But making no distinction between tall/broad-shouldered people and fat people doesn't solve the issue for manlets: they still feel that their sacred personal space is being intruded on (isn't that in the definition of public transport though?).
We can't chop off our shoulders either, I can't help that I have broad shoulders and I certainly don't feel sorry for it.
Any solution that targets overweight people will also impact most tall people. You can't penalize someone for being tall, it's beyond ridiculous and we need to stop with this fucking baby society. Man the fuck up and deal with it instead of crying like a bunch of toddlers.
What's next? Anyone above 6' has to pay extra for concert tickets because they might be obscuring the view of tiny people? Or they should all be forced to stand way in the back?
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