Plus-sized traveler demands free seats

peterwalkley said:
BBB's take on it:

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Not sure why anyone would have a go at her for paying for two seats but if she is or has done so in the past then that is right thing to do IMO and good on her for thinking ahead or not being selfish about these things.

In her instagram photo's it looks like she has extra oxygen given to her while flying? I can't assume anything but a reasonable guess would be the need for such device would due to her size/weight, if so this is the not so positive aspect of the 'body positive movement'.
 
Freefaller said:
Personally I approve of bigger seats... but isn't that called business class? She should just pay for that.
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Yes but the draw back there is often they're more like individual seats so you can't spill over to the next one, she would probably get stuck.
 
It should just come down to the airline. A person should fit in the seat. It's a safety thing. If the airline doesn't want to fit a wide seat then well, hard luck, take the bus.
 
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FlamBango said:
something like that happened to me a few years back. flying back from Hong Kong i had a pre booked seat but when i got there there was this manatee sat in it, she claimed to have booked the aisle seat next to mine but it was a little smaller so decided to wedge her flab into my seat. These were the child changing seats and i wasnt aware that the aisle seat was a little thinner than the middle seat, which i'd booked. So rather than kicking up a fuss , and being a gent i just said i would have her seat.

What followed was a 12 hour flight into terror. Half her flab was rolling over into me, i had to lean to one side to get away from it which gave a prime target to the cabin crew who insisted on ramming me with the trolly every chance they got.

What i should have told her to do was kick up a fuss with the crew and claim her bloated backside was too small for their seats and demand an upgrade. Anyway, lessons learnt.
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Happened to me too, on a 12 hour flight to Mexico. Woman was much bigger than the one in the picture in this thread, that I could barely see my seat, let alone get in it. Cabin crew told me to try and sit during take-off then they'd find me another seat, only to come back later and say flight was completely full, including business class. I stood in the galley and drank for 11 hours.

The green and environmentally friendly thing to do is to charge everyone by weight, as more weight = more fuel = more CO2. Nothing to do with discriminating against fat people, it's an environmental issue.
 
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Imagine the captain needing to ask everyone to move to the other side of the plane because of turbulence and having to announce not you dear in seat x, you stay where you are.
 
years ago i was in Vegas on a stagdoo and to go on a chopper grandcanyon trip you had to be under 17 stone or pay for 2 seats due to take off limits of the air craft.

i was half a stone over .......... i was mildly disappointed (and a little embarrassed) but i was not angry at the helicopter company, people have to be safe and the company should not be expected to cut profits.

i chose to just stay in the casino and gamble (and was glad i did, one of the party threw up on the chopper - in a bag - which then made the rest feel rough ):D
 
Does make you think. I think for health and safety reasons people over a certain weight should be banned from flying. not Only do they effect others passengers but they are not going to be easy to evacuate in an emergency

however as balance they could set up a rival company that has special modified planes that have enlarged seats for this sort of circumstances . Maybe they can name them something like mammoth airlines or Along those lines

or maybe just have modified planes just for just this reason.
 
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