Flying first/ business class

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Anonymous wrote:About six years ago I was flying economy from SFO to ORD and I had an aisle seat. In the middle seat was a 300 pounder who couldn’t help but spread out leaving me to lean over the aisle for five hours getting hit by carts and people walking by. The next morning my neck and back hurt like hell. I had recently retired and we are very high NW. Now I fly first class and while I hunt for the best deal I’m not flying in economy. I’m too old, too wealthy and too tired of flying in what has become a cattle car.

Airlines should charge by the pound. They charge for extra luggage!

Airlines should have each passenger get on the scale with all their luggage, including personal items, coats and carryons. Any passenger whose total body and luggage weight exceeds the
allowance should pay by the pound.

So we should publicly fat shame? Great idea! I can't imagine any knock on consequences from that.

Of course not, but why is it fair to me at 5 ft, 110 lbs that a stranger who is quite large spills in to my seat. It is not comfortable for me. I don’t know what the answer is.

My shoulders are so broad that they don’t fit in the seat on a normal economy seat. No one has ever complained about that to me or even in general. It’s always the fat people who catch it. Why is that?

People also typically aren’t complaining to obese people to their face. For whatever reason (be it broad shoulders or fat) if you are spilling over into someone else’s seat they are definitely unhappy with you and you are in the wrong and should be either buying a second seat or a upgraded class of service.

Make me. I have broad shoulders. Can’t help it. Talk to the airlines about their skinny seats.

Or you just purchase business or 2 seats. If you don't fit, you need to do that

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Anonymous wrote:HHI 4 m last year, we now fly business when it’s overnight ( so we can sleep) but usually fly premium on return. We have three kids so it seems like a reasonable approach to us.

Amazing that with an HHI of $4M that you cannot afford to fly business or first class all the time. You must be operating a household budget at a wildly inefficient level. DH and I always fly business and first class in order to help subsidize airline operating costs so that the less fortunate members of society have access to more affordable economy fares. I guess I’m a little disgusted that someone making $4M per year is stealing away economy fares from families that can’t afford anything more. Do you also unnecessarily book ADA hotel rooms so that handicapped people cannot have them?!? Selfish trash.

I’m one of the less fortune members of society you are referring to who is literally currently on a flight at the back of the plane (my splurge was for WiFi). If you really want to help me, feel free to upgrade me on my return flight home. I’m sure Jeff can figure out how to put us in touch.