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Plus-Sized Traveler Demands Free Seats, Better Accommodations on Airlines
New York Post ^ | April 15, 2023 | Richard Pollina

Posted on 04/18/2023 2:57:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway

A plus-size travel social media influencer demanded that airlines better accommodate larger passengers when traveling.

Jae’lynn Chaney from Vancouver, Washington, started the Change.org petition “Demand for the FAA to Protect Plus-Sized Customers,” detailing several demands to ensure larger passengers can fly without issues.

Chaney kicked off the petition claiming she and her fiancé were subjected to discrimination on a recent flight from Pasco, WA to Denver — which roughly takes just over 2 hours.

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1 posted on 04/18/2023 2:57:34 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Quite the opposite, people in her size class should be required to purchase two seats because they take up two full seats

Anyone who has had to fly in a non stop cross country flight in the middle seat between two “plus size” passengers understands


2 posted on 04/18/2023 3:02:35 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: nickcarraway

In all fairness the seats should be bigger for everyone. Like in the old days


3 posted on 04/18/2023 3:09:54 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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I hadn’t flown for 35 years until 2021

Even comfort class seemed tight and I’m not all that big anymore


4 posted on 04/18/2023 3:27:04 AM PDT by digger48
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To: nickcarraway

Stop feeding your piehole and Live.


5 posted on 04/18/2023 3:27:54 AM PDT by wetgundog
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To: nickcarraway
Pay per kg for each ticket. At a certain weight make people buy two seats.

Political correctness (now having matured into fullblown totalitarian communism) still does NOT trump gravity and other laws of physics.

Sorry fat people. Try losing weight.

6 posted on 04/18/2023 3:28:05 AM PDT by caddie (We must all become Trump, starting now!)
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She not only wants free wide seats, she wants to be pushed there in a wheelchair if necessary.

What about the health comfort and safety of the poor man who is supposed to wheel her 400 lbs into place?


7 posted on 04/18/2023 3:29:35 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: nickcarraway

she’s not “plus-sized”
she’s fat. there’s a difference.


8 posted on 04/18/2023 3:36:40 AM PDT by wny
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To: nickcarraway

As a long time fatty I can tell you that there is no time that you can travel without issues. It is not the responsibility for the airlines to mitigate your lack of self control. Airplanes are entirely governed by mass or weight if you will and you can’t ignore that fact. Want to travel without issues? Lose weight.


9 posted on 04/18/2023 3:50:26 AM PDT by webheart
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I’ve sat between two behemoths once who spilled into my seat forcing me to try to squeeze myself into a little area.

I do not care that you are morbidly obese. You still have not paid for my seat

Yes, I do choose my seats now and forever.


10 posted on 04/18/2023 4:31:16 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: nickcarraway
She's not “plus size”, she's humongous...
11 posted on 04/18/2023 4:40:17 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My guitar wants to kill your mama - Zappa)
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Plenty of room in the cargo hold…


12 posted on 04/18/2023 4:48:58 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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Charge them like they do excess baggage - by the pound...


13 posted on 04/18/2023 5:04:45 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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I recently had this nightmare come true when an obese man arrived to claim the aisle seat where I was seated in the middle. I had already put the armrest down, and when he sat his hip enveloped it. I told him we could put the armrest up for his comfort. He jokingly said the seatbelt “almost fit” then asked for an extender. I had to move waaaaay over towards the window seat passenger, somewhat invading her space . Thank God she was not obese, and thank God it was only a 2 hour flight!


14 posted on 04/18/2023 5:20:14 AM PDT by Reddy (BO stinks)
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She be thicker than a snicker. Sorry, that's a two seat requirement.

15 posted on 04/18/2023 5:51:37 AM PDT by CodeJockey ("The duty of a true Patriot is to protect his country from its government.” –Thomas Paine)
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In case the jet ways leading onto the terminal can't take the extra weight, they might need an alternative method of deplaning.

16 posted on 04/18/2023 7:18:08 AM PDT by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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You’re not “plus-sized”, you’re a fat cow with little to no discipline or genuine self-esteem.

I loathe folks who think that because they are big, they are special. I know folks with glandular issues that are large, but they recognize that even though they have no control over their size, they are not entitled to encroach or impede others. They are among the emotionally strongest people I know, because they dealt with this from a young age and GREW from it.


17 posted on 04/18/2023 9:28:17 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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