Fat people on planes

I'm over 110 kilos in weight, over six foot tall and, other than two tiny love-handles (which my missus says only I can see) am not "a fatty". I'm what most people would call a rugby player. However, under some of the suggestions in here, I'd be punished when I'm not making it more difficult for anyone else. In actual fact, I find flying uncomfortable because the leg space is designed for all you short, skinny, whingy freaks! :D

I think measuring waists is the only way to go. If you can't hula-hoop, you should take a boat.
 
RimBlock said:
Is this realistic. Nope, will never happen apart from in the most extreme cases. Just like smaller people being able to take more luggage as their body size / weight does not reach the set 'normal' parameters. Size in airports is a premium commodity. Who is going to pay for the area required to weigh a person and their baggage. Where should these areas be located. It will have to be before the check in counters. How is it going to affect the queues which people already complain about very loudly.
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They already have big luggage scales at airports, why not just get the passenger to stand next to their luggage?

I feel this will never be sorted by airlines are they are too scared of being sued for discrimination or people saying its ridiculous as mentioned by Thompson. Instead we will see the nation(s) get fatter and fatter and ticket prices increase as fuel increases and also fuel costs increase. Normal weight people will have to put up with larger people increasing ticket costs for everyone else aswell as putting up with them on the flight.

I will soon be going on 8 flights plus any internal flights and travelling on coachs, boats and busses for many hours. God help any fatties that are seated next to me, i dont like being rude but if i cannot be comfy or eat properly then I will be jabbing a folk into anything on my side of my chair. Pictures will be taken for OcUK
 
Of course you will, because you clearly are the keyboard warrior type to do that.
Don't be such a muppet.
 
Luw said:
I'm over 110 kilos in weight, over six foot tall and, other than two tiny love-handles (which my missus says only I can see) am not "a fatty". I'm what most people would call a rugby player. However, under some of the suggestions in here, I'd be punished when I'm not making it more difficult for anyone else. In actual fact, I find flying uncomfortable because the leg space is designed for all you short, skinny, whingy freaks! :D

I think measuring waists is the only way to go. If you can't hula-hoop, you should take a boat.
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Its not really whether you are fat, i think anyone over the average seat size and normal weight should pay extra/for another seat/business class etc

You could have a 10kilo body and a 3foot wide 100kilo head, it would still mean the plane carrying more fuel and you taking up some of my space
 
mattyj1085 said:
Its not really whether you are fat, i think anyone over the average seat size and normal weight should pay extra/for another seat/business class etc

You could have a 10kilo body and a 3foot wide 100kilo head, it would still mean the plane carrying more fuel and you taking up some of my space
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get off the FAT subject then.
 
This is an interesting debate. I'm not sure where I stand on this. Part of me agrees that "larger" people should perhaps pay slightly more, but then what about people who are naturally large like me? I'm 6ft 8 and weigh a healthy 20 stone 7. I've always been big, but I'm not fat. It would go against my human rights to charge me more for a seat when there's sod all I can do about it.
 
Tweek_1984 said:
True story:

I flew to Canada last year with Thomson. It was the first time I'd flown with them and I'd done this same trip about 10 times before with other airlines.

I was charged £58 for being 3kg over the baggage limit of 20kg. Most airlines I flown with in the past, with a baggage allowance of 20kg, won't bat an eyelid at anything below 25kg, but oh no - this time I was ordered to pay. So I go to desk to pay the fine and there's about 10 other mugs lined-up, all fuming because they were only several kgs over the limit.

So when it comes my turn to pay, I say to the staff - "Excuse me, but if you're penalising people for a few extra kilos of baggage, why aren't you charging fat people extra?". According to them, my question was 'discriminatory' and 'ridiculous'.

I'll never fly Thomson again.
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I would have simply taken out 3kg of the least useful stuff in my bag, binned it (toiletries, a couple of cheap items of clothes etc) and then bought it again when you landed for a lot less than £58, makes sense no ? Or was every single thing not binnable ?
 
Combat squirrel said:
I would have simply taken out 3kg of the least useful stuff in my bag, binned it (toiletries, a couple of cheap items of clothes etc) and then bought it again when you landed for a lot less than £58, makes sense no ? Or was every single thing not binnable ?
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Thats not the point, if they weighted the people in front of him with their luggage and their combined weight was say 120kilos then weighed tweek and his luggage, which might have come to 95 kilos, he would not have had to bin anything because he weighed less than the obese person weight.

Airlines dont supply a machete to chop the excess weight off obese people so why should he have to ditch items?

In fact, you should have strapped 5 pairs of jeans or other clothing to your stomach. This would probably be the same as the people in front of you. Then if the airlines complained asked them to weight the other people and then weigh you with the extra clothing around you.
See, its actually the none obese / normal sized people who are being discriminated against
 
mattyj1085 said:
Thats not the point, if they weighted the people in front of him with their luggage and their combined weight was say 120kilos then weighed tweek and his luggage, which might have come to 95 kilos, he would not have had to bin anything because he weighed less than the obese person weight.

Airlines dont supply a machete to chop the excess weight off obese people so why should he have to ditch items?

In fact, you should have strapped 5 pairs of jeans or other clothing to your stomach. This would probably be the same as the people in front of you. Then if the airlines complained asked them to weight the other people and then weigh you with the extra clothing around you.
See, its actually the none obese / normal sized people who are being discriminated against
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Yeah thats a good point, I would have just put on the clothes and when they had ago at me I would say there discimintaing against me and if they wanted to weigh me they would have to weigh everyone else on the flight also :D
 
Law of physics.

You need X amount of fuel to transport x kgs a particular distance.

Why should the 100kg (average man + bag) pay the same as the 150kg (fat/big man + bag)? Clearly the airline needs more fuel to lugg 150kgs vs 100kgs. Why should the 100kg example be "subsidizing" the 150kg example? Which is clearly what happens when the 100kg example has to pay the surcharge for being 10kgs over.

Nothing to do with "discrimination". And please, nobody is asking your weight to be displayed in public. You stand on the weigh mat with your luggage, for which only the check-in person can see.....
 
Just to add, they already weigh you if you're flying offshore on the choppers, just to make sure the chopper can take off. People quite often bumped because the flight is overweight :p.
 
I have a pal that was sacked from working offshore because he was overweight. There comes a point where a fat...sorry Horizontally challenged person, becomes a health risk to others.

Try to get off a plane in an emergency but the f....Horizontally challenged person next to you is stuck and u have to climb over the seat infront of you stepping on a small child's arm in the process.

We are charged to post letters/packages by weight and dimension...why not people?
 
I'm all for this, I watched two skinny girls being charged £25 for a kilo or so overweight coming back off holiday whilst an enormous woman who probably weighed equal to their combined weight gets charged nothing extra, with fuel surcharges on the up this needs sorting out so you pay by total weight of self & luggage
 
izzy eckerslike said:
I'm all for this, I watched two skinny girls being charged £25 for a kilo or so overweight coming back off holiday whilst an enormous woman who probably weighed equal to their combined weight gets charged nothing extra, with fuel surcharges on the up this needs sorting out so you pay by total weight of self & luggage
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To be honest though, some people cant help their weight. I am about 5'11 and 9 stone. I cant put on any weight even if I eat twice as much as I should and unhealthy stuff too.

One of my friends barely eats anything, does a lot more exercise than I do and is still 4 stone heavier than me (and a lot shorter). Would you want your mate paying extra because he cant help his weight?

I flew to NZ and it was ****ing horrible. No leg room, however the people beside my were skinny. If someone was overflowing on to my seat I probably would have been rather annoyed.
 
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