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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jeff needs to delete this thread[/quote]

you can report it and let him decide
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I reported it once for a clean up and he didn't do it. I just don't understand this thread is VILE. I keep posting so if there are overweight or obese people reading this they know that plenty of people don't feel like this. [/quote]

I am overweight! I had my third child a few months ago and it was a difficult pregnancy and I still weigh over 200 pounds! And I still fit comfortably in a plane seat. Those people do not fit comfortably in a seat without affecting the people next to them and they should need to pay for another seat. It’s just logic. When your size starts becoming other people’s problem, it becomes other people’s business.[/quote]

As many other people have said in this thread, this is the airlines fault. They don't have clear policies, they screw people over, and then they let the people scrap it out and turn on each other. No one acts well on an airplane in my experience. Well that is not true I have had a lot of people show compassion to me when I traveled with children, but people are usually just shuffling through mindlessly.

We should not accept obese people being put in this situation where they need to be publicly humiliated by a fellow passenger. Have a weight limit in the booking process, have it trigger the need to buy a second seat, have it anchored into the systems so it can't be changed. FORCE airlines to treat human beings with dignity.[/quote]

How would the airline know when these people booked tickets, especially if it was online.  The passenger should have handled it very differently but those to people should have sat next to each other or paid for a third seat. [/quote]

Can you read? I'm saying airlines should bake this into the booking process so this can all be taken care of discreetly. [/quote]

Not the PP, but how are you going to ensure that the airline gets correct information for people booking tickets online or through a travel agent or over the phone? If you ask someone to disclose their weight and tell them that everyone over XXX pounds will need to buy another seat, obviously the motivation for them to say they are XXX-5 pounds is pretty high. For that matter,  how are you even going to standardize this question? What is the weight limit? What about a height limit? Will you ask everyone booking tickets to put their height and weight in when booking tickets? As for having it "anchored into the system", what about if a person loses (or gains) a significant amount of weight?

I get the general idea of your proposal, but there is no way to implement this that doesn't encourage people to lie or shame them.[/quote]

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