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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need to stop all this petty infighting and force airlines to step up.

I fly often and don't have an issue. Hell I flew with a lap infant in a middle seat last week and never crossed the line. I did think that the person next to me should have given me the arm rest since I had a lap infant and was in the middle, but he didn't and I survived.

We need seats reserved for the obese. If you're over 225, you're required to reserve and pay for those (or first class).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've posted on this topic several times before about my coworker. We travel a lot for work. She's a bigger person (definitely in the obese category). Our company pays for our tickets, of course, and she will pay out of pocket for a second seat to have a buffer zone. The only time she doesn't do this is if we're in a two seat row and I'm in the seat next to her (upon my insistence as I don't mind some spillage; I grew up with an overweight sibling and parent so I'm used to it).

We flew 8 times in December alone and out of those eight times, she bought a second buffer seat 5 times. Out of those 5 extra seats that were purchased, do you know how many times that buffer seat wasn't taken from her? One. ONE time the airline did not tell her that the seat was needed due to an overbooked flight. And guess what? She doesn't get to say no when they ask to take the seat. The first time it happened she did say no and the flight attendant told her if she persisted in being a "problem" then she would have to notify the captain and she would be deplaned. The airlines have all the power.

There have been times when her buffer seat has been taken and given to another passenger and that person has complained about my coworker. I always speak up and let them know that the only reason they're on the flight is because the extra seat she paid for was taken from her and given to that person. That usually shuts them up pretty quickly.

Does my coworker get money back for the seat she purchased? Yes. Does she often get more than what she paid for the seat? Yes, sometimes, but I can guarantee you that she'd rather have the buffer seat than the money. You know, since she purchased it to begin with and all that.

That's crazy and eye opening.

+1
kudos to you PP for supporting your coworker. please keep writing about this. I am a DCUM regular and haven’t seen this before.

[Anonymous]

I think it is time for regulations to be added to the rights of passengers. Like a minimum square footage required for each seat- minimu distances between each row of seats. THings like that. My nephew is as fit as they come and 6’2” , long legged, and cannot physically fit into the seats anymore. It is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need to stop all this petty infighting and force airlines to step up.

I fly often and don't have an issue. Hell I flew with a lap infant in a middle seat last week and never crossed the line. I did think that the person next to me should have given me the arm rest since I had a lap infant and was in the middle, but he didn't and I survived.

We need seats reserved for the obese. If you're over 225, you're required to reserve and pay for those (or first class).

So, people who are tall have to be fitter than short people?

[Anonymous]

What makes you think they were together???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel like airlines could do this in a responsible way. Like have a weight limit. If you weigh over 225lbs, you have to buy the "hefty seats" or two seats.

My husband weighs 240 but is over 6’5” he doesn’t need extra seat space, he needs extra leg room. I think it could be done be pants size.

or just a policy that if you need a seat belt extender then you need an extra seat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need to stop all this petty infighting and force airlines to step up.

I fly often and don't have an issue. Hell I flew with a lap infant in a middle seat last week and never crossed the line. I did think that the person next to me should have given me the arm rest since I had a lap infant and was in the middle, but he didn't and I survived.

We need seats reserved for the obese. If you're over 225, you're required to reserve and pay for those (or first class).

Lap infants should not be allowed at all due to the safety issues.

[Anonymous]

The woman was very rude, but it isn't fair to buy a ticket (doesn't matter if the purchase was via miles- she earned them and they are like currency) and not have your seat space to yourself. I can't stand touching strangers and when a larger person sits next to me on a plane and their body meshes against me I find it uncomfortable. Not fair to take a window and aisle and have both people take up middle space. I'd want to be moved as well. Again, she was rude and handled the situation poorly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What makes you think they were together???

The pictures of them together? Simpletons need to follow along!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would have been more polite about it, but I also would have been as firm as possible that I needed to be moved. GO get a flight attendant, and say, "Look, I don't want to make a big deal about this, but the people on either side of me are infringing on my seat. I paid for a seat - a full seat - and I need to be moved." And take it from there, staying firm, but polite. I also would have resisted being rebooked - I am not the one who created this issue, and one of them needs to be rebooked if that's the only solution.

Good luck with that. You can be polite all day long but airline customer service STINKS. You’ll be the one getting rebooked.

Youre only saying this because they are Black.




Rightly so. She's the one with the problem. When has air travel ever been pleasant?

Sorry, no. When not one, but two people are spilling into my seat, I *have* the problem, but I am not the one who *created* the problem. The burden of the remedy should fall on the one who caused the situation.

[Anonymous]

PP is right, if these were white folks, that poster wouldn't say that.

[Anonymous]

You people are so mean
That woman was mean
There was a way to handle it without shaming and embarrassing that couple.
The one lady reacted to being verbally assaulted.
Not necessarily the way I would have handled it but no one has ever talked to me in That manner.
How horrible that lady in the middle .
We all want to be comfortable but I'm not goi g to throw someone's dignity in the toilet to get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone of the passengers giving it back to the rude woman offer to take her seat? Seems like they were all talk and no action.

Why should they help this rude woman?

+1

Glad she was removed from the flight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need to stop all this petty infighting and force airlines to step up.

I fly often and don't have an issue. Hell I flew with a lap infant in a middle seat last week and never crossed the line. I did think that the person next to me should have given me the arm rest since I had a lap infant and was in the middle, but he didn't and I survived.

We need seats reserved for the obese. If you're over 225, you're required to reserve and pay for those (or first class).

So, people who are tall have to be fitter than short people?

Well that's why I said 225. My husband is 6'3 and is under 200.

Weight is what matters to airlines because it costs them money in fuel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've posted on this topic several times before about my coworker. We travel a lot for work. She's a bigger person (definitely in the obese category). Our company pays for our tickets, of course, and she will pay out of pocket for a second seat to have a buffer zone. The only time she doesn't do this is if we're in a two seat row and I'm in the seat next to her (upon my insistence as I don't mind some spillage; I grew up with an overweight sibling and parent so I'm used to it).

We flew 8 times in December alone and out of those eight times, she bought a second buffer seat 5 times. Out of those 5 extra seats that were purchased, do you know how many times that buffer seat wasn't taken from her? One. ONE time the airline did not tell her that the seat was needed due to an overbooked flight. And guess what? She doesn't get to say no when they ask to take the seat. The first time it happened she did say no and the flight attendant told her if she persisted in being a "problem" then she would have to notify the captain and she would be deplaned. The airlines have all the power.

There have been times when her buffer seat has been taken and given to another passenger and that person has complained about my coworker. I always speak up and let them know that the only reason they're on the flight is because the extra seat she paid for was taken from her and given to that person. That usually shuts them up pretty quickly.

Does my coworker get money back for the seat she purchased? Yes. Does she often get more than what she paid for the seat? Yes, sometimes, but I can guarantee you that she'd rather have the buffer seat than the money. You know, since she purchased it to begin with and all that.

That's crazy and eye opening.

+1
kudos to you PP for supporting your coworker. please keep writing about this. I am a DCUM regular and haven’t seen this before.

+1

Wow - that is nuts that they won't let her use the buffer seat.