Plus-sized traveler demands free seats

Sat next to a man, guessing about 26 stone on a plane. His flab was spilling onto me. Not the most comfortable and pleasant experience.

Then on a flight to USA, the seat in front of me had a man of a similar size to above, reclined his seat most of the flight Plus the seat was broken so he reclined further back than normal. Plus his size made the recline worse. Air hostesses moved us to another part of the plane (plane was about 85% full).

With the fat man reclining so much I couldn’t move - I was 13 and about 5ft 5. You could see all the dandruff in his hair!
 
If your sat next to someone and they are leaking into your seat, they should have to pay for part of your ticket.
 
At airports, do you look at people/families and think “please don’t be on my flight” if they are seriously obese and if they are at your plane’s gate “please don’t sit next to me”.

This also applies to screaming kids, people with BO etc
 
America is chock full of turbo fatties but it’s only now and then you see articles like this, willing to bet most of the units don’t moan like this. As with everything on the internet it’s always a minority of screachers who get the most attention and it’s these people that stereotypes are built upon (such as “no one has accountability anymore”).

Shout out to the millions of funtime chubsters most of whome don’t behave like this lady.
 
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So this is kinda interesting to me, both as a fatso and someone who has been considering a short haul holiday in the coming weeks... I'm not as big as her and can, just about, fit into a single seat but it's not ideal really, even just from a personal perspective to attempt to be as accomadating as possible I'd end up 'curling' my shoulders in which for 3+ hours becomes quite painful, so I looked into options but really there aren't that many...

Booking 2 seats for example, there's no guarantees that you'll actually get two seats next to each other, especially with some of the cheaper airlines. Premium economy doesn't have wider seats generally, just more leg room.

Even business on short haul is usually the same seat width/setup but with the middle seat empty, which would be fine but then the routes become unavailable/silly, to get to Mallorca from Gatwick I'd be looking at 1-2 stops each way and double the time, sod that. Obviously long haul business is where it's at.

Given obesity is quite common, and getting more so, I'm kinda surprised airlines haven't started making changes in that direction, not for free cause that's unreasonable to expect but if an airline offered a double-width seat (so on short-haul 2x2 seats either side of the aisle rather than 2x3) for 50-100% extra cost I'd probably go for that as it would make the flight much better.

As it is I'm probably not going to bother and maybe do a UK based holiday instead to avoid the problem, plus the 4+ hours in airports.
 
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So this is kinda interesting to me, both as a fatso and someone who has been considering a short haul holiday in the coming weeks... I'm not as big as her and can, just about, fit into a single seat but it's not ideal really, even just from a personal perspective to attempt to be as accomadating as possible I'd end up 'curling' my shoulders in which for 3+ hours becomes quite painful, so I looked into options but really there aren't that many...

Booking 2 seats for example, there's no guarantees that you'll actually get two seats next to each other, especially with some of the cheaper airlines. Premium economy doesn't have wider seats generally, just more leg room.

Even business on short haul is usually the same seat width/setup but with the middle seat empty, which would be fine but then the routes become unavailable/silly, to get to Mallorca from Gatwick I'd be looking at 1-2 stops each way and double the time, sod that. Obviously long haul business is where it's at.

Given obesity is quite common, and getting more so, I'm kinda surprised airlines haven't started making changes in that direction, not for free cause that's unreasonable to expect but if an airline offered a double-width seat (so on short-haul 2x2 seats either side of the aisle rather than 2x3) for 50-100% extra cost I'd probably go for that as it would make the flight much better.

As it is I'm probably not going to bother and maybe do a UK based holiday instead to avoid the problem, plus the 4+ hours in airports.
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F that. Just go. Deal with the discomfort.
Be polite, no one's gonna moan to your face anyway 99% of people are extremely anti confrontation.
Exit seats are much longer leg room. Maybe you can train yourself to spread forward :p
 
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Tbh I fly short haul about 10 times a year and the airlines and staff bend over backwards to help me find a comfy seat where my legs don't have to lay on the wings.
 
I have never been comfortable on an economy flight. Ever. That's why it's categorised as economy.

If any of us want to be comfy we have to pay for the extra room or business/first class, or learn contortionism.

The only discrimination we ever face is down to the fatness of our wallets.
 
They should have a size check like at theme parks. If you can't fit in the seat you get turned away. Or you get weighed and charged fuel costs depending on that.
 
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being fat is 99% down to the persons life choices aka eating too much. i was 300+ lbs 1 year ago. i ate a lot and ate junk food, i piled on the weight, no surprise. it was very enjoyable eating lots of junk food, i can see why people get fat. i've since lost nearly 90 lbs in the last year, i'm 213 lbs today, aiming for 168 lbs by xmas 2023. a fat person should pay for the spaces they occupy on a plane imo.
 
wow that is some meltdown..... what a prat!.
dont get me wrong babies on planes are grating........ but you just have to lump it (just like you have to lump it if sat next to an over weight person on a flight)

my dad almost lost it once on a flight - it was to................... Jamaica (i think) so proper long haul.. but it was nothing like that, and that was a scrote old enough to know better constantly kicking the back of his seat. he politely asked the kid to stop, before politely asking the parents to make him stop at which point they some something like "what do you expect us to do about it?) (note the kid was probably around 10ish)

i think my dad said something along the lines of, well you could give him a bloody good smacked arse! and that did not go down well..... at which point i think my mum intercepted and made him shut up.
the kid didnt stop, and the parents didnt do squat.

mind you i think some of our friends think we are way to overbearing on our lad... i dont care however i do not buy into the modern hands off parenting approach and think many who claim to do that basically mean...i cant be bothered and let my kid be a little snot bag. but i am derailing sorry.
 
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