This woman seated between two obese people is awful but so are they for not buying the extra seat.

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Anonymous wrote:If those two people were flying together, my money says they bought the aisle and window in hopes that the middle seat would be unused and then they get a free extra seat to spread.

I know so many people who do this and take this gamble. The other woman was super rude though, it was not the way to handle it.

You hit the nail on the head. Maybe there should be some way for airlines to ask for the weight and dimensions of passengers like they do for suitcases. Or even have plexiglass sides that can be pulled up on the side of each seat. That way the grossly overweight people can sqiush themselves up in their sardine cans.

I'm fat and I think that this is really fair!

even better would be to have some dedicate fat rows with wider seats and more room. People would pay more to sit there but less than first class. Americans are getting bigger, not smaller, time to wake up to that.

And what's to stop someone who isn't fat wanting to sit in the "wider seats and more room but not expensive" seats? Keeping them out would be discrimination against healthy-sized people, wouldn't it?

Size is not a protected class.

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Anonymous wrote:If those two people were flying together, my money says they bought the aisle and window in hopes that the middle seat would be unused and then they get a free extra seat to spread.

I know so many people who do this and take this gamble. The other woman was super rude though, it was not the way to handle it.

You hit the nail on the head. Maybe there should be some way for airlines to ask for the weight and dimensions of passengers like they do for suitcases. Or even have plexiglass sides that can be pulled up on the side of each seat. That way the grossly overweight people can sqiush themselves up in their sardine cans.

I'm fat and I think that this is really fair!

even better would be to have some dedicate fat rows with wider seats and more room. People would pay more to sit there but less than first class. Americans are getting bigger, not smaller, time to wake up to that.

And what's to stop someone who isn't fat wanting to sit in the "wider seats and more room but not expensive" seats? Keeping them out would be discrimination against healthy-sized people, wouldn't it?

Don’t airlines already have this? Economy plus. I also agree that it would be difficult to reserve these only for people who are heavy. Others want extra room and space too.

People who require a larger seat should make it a point to book one of those wider seats early OR they should be required to purchase two seats in coach.

They are required to purchase two seats already. Not just by common sense and decency, but the airline they were flying had a specific policy about it that was not followed.

I think the airline needs to remove the potential for ambiguity, so we don’t leave it up to the passengers to decide for themselves whether the policy applies to them I.e. whether they want to buy an extra seat or not. Because clearly some people aren’t buying extra seats when they should be, and this thread has shown there are plenty of people who don’t care who they inconvenience.

So there needs to be a size measurement as people are boarding the aircraft... which people are going to argue is not being sensitive but it’s what is required, period. If people don’t want to be subjected to it then they can choose not to fly.

If they can weigh people before entering a ride at six flags, surely they can do the same for an airplane.