160kg Woman Forced to pay for second Seat

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This will make you people who say obese people should be charged more on flights happy:p

A Cairns woman says there is fat chance she'll fly with Jetstar again after she claims she was discriminated against for being overweight.

Samantha Scafe (pictured) , an IT expert who weighs 160kg, said she was forced to pay for a second seat for herself "for other people’s comfort" when she flies from Cairns to Coolangatta today.

After making the initial booking on January 15, she claims she was then told twice on January 18 by Jetstar not to worry about paying for a second fare because "we can get around the policy of charging a big person for two seats".

"I was told by Jetstar to phone the night before my flight to book excess luggage and not to worry about paying for the second seat," Ms Scafe told The Cairns Post yesterday.

"Then on Saturday, they advised me to book and pay for a second seat for other people’s comfort because of my size … and, would you believe, they then made a further mistake which I later noticed on the web by splitting up my seats so they weren’t next to each other."

Jetstar late yesterday apologised to Ms Scafe but said it was not policy to provide overweight customers with a two-for-the-price-of-one deal.

Ms Scafe said she had cited in discussions with Jetstar a Canadian court ruling last November that overweight people could have two seats for the price of one.

She said she had filed a complaint with Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland.
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http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2009/02/03/26581_local-news.html
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Do you think this was Fair? (Never been on a plane, so i cant really coment too much)
BTW Jetstar is an Ecconemy plane, probably similer to easyjet


Yes, i know its a month late but i only just rememberd this happend.:p
 
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Glad to hear.

It's amazing what some people will put themselves through just to have that extra cream cake (if she's fat because she loves food)
 
all people who weigh 160kg should be charged, on a plane or not. (unless you are either a 7.5foot basketball player or worlds strongest man or something)

edit - just seen image - she should be charged for 10 seats, anyone sitting near her will have nightmares forever
 
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they then made a further mistake which I later noticed on the web by splitting up my seats so they weren’t next to each other
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Haha, but seriously there is nothing worse than sitting next to someone that's so fat that they don't fit in their own seat.
 
And so she should, if she takes up 2 seats then she should pay for 2 seats simple as.

When traveling around Oz on the Greyhound I had a seat next to a rather large bloke and for the 8 hour journey I was forced between the arm of the seat and him.

I should have got a third off the travel cost for that trip.
 
What do you mean you've never been on a plane zip?

Flying is awesome. You get to look out the window and go "MWUHAHAHAHAHAHA" on take off and landing because everyone looks like ants. ;)
 
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And so she should, if she takes up 2 seats then she should pay for 2 seats simple as.

When traveling around Oz on the Greyhound I had a seat next to a rather large bloke and for the 8 hour journey I was forced between the arm of the seat and him.

I should have got a third off the travel cost for that trip.
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why didnt you complain? I would have
 
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