Should fat people be charged for two seats on an airliner? (bias, Las Vegas)

[mistygrl092]

I say yes. What say you?

[liebknecht]

yes

[alphamale]

Let them fly for free if they choose to sit in the cargo hold.

Just kidding.

Of course they should pay for as many seats as they need.

[Art123]

Maybe ticket prices can be based on your weight. YOU get on the scale instead of your luggage.


I say if any part of you can't fit in the imaginary vertical plane between the seats (think backseat childhood road trips), then you pay for the 2nd seat.

[mimimomx3]

If you can fit in one seat, you pay for one seat. If you need more than one seat, you pay for what you need. Seems pretty straightforward to me.

[artsyguy]

Fat people are already being charged two seats per flight. Can you imagine what the TSA agents will have to go through? Can you imagine the X-ray power needed to see through their rolls of blubber?

Another problem is pilots are literally having risky take-offs because of obese people: now they have special safety precautions when they have morbid obese people on board because they make landing and take-offs risky.

So it's a gamble every time you fly. If you get stuck in an passenger jet full of obese gluttons then it's more likely your airplane may not take off.

Also they are booting off the skinny passengers to make room for the obese passengers. Since I guess obesity is a protected class.

[mistygrl092]

Originally Posted by Art123

Maybe ticket prices can be based on your weight. YOU get on the scale instead of your luggage!

LOL, I won't even let them weigh me at my Dr's office. I just say "No, I don't do that." They just say, um, ok?

Now, this didn't bother me at ALL when I was a size 4/6, but I am no longer a 4/6.

[las vegas drunk]

Only if they are morbidly obese and require 2 seats. If they are real fat, but can squeeze into one seat, no. I personally have no bias towards overweight people.

[mistygrl092]

Originally Posted by las vegas drunk

Only if they are morbidly obese and require 2 seats. If they are real fat, but can squeeze into one seat, no. I personally have no bias towards overweight people.

But what happens when they overlap into your seat? Are you supposed to just sit there smunched for the flight? Not fair.

[artsyguy]

Maybe you should have a bias since they literally cause risky take offs and landings.

Originally Posted by las vegas drunk

I personally have no bias towards overweight people.