[Bogey78O]

A standard airline seat is only so wide. They're not penalizing overweight people. They're charging people who are over-width.

These fat bastards who are raising a ruckus are being self-centered. They don't care that they'd crowd the person next to them. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO..... that's okay to have half your body in the guy next to yours lap but let that guy protest and he's the jerk.

So to all the nice people who are overweight I don't mean you. But the fat people who are taken aback at being charged extra for carrying on extra go choke on a donut.

[Glenn]

These fat bastards who are raising a ruckus are being self-centered.

Who the hell are you to call anyone a "bastard"? Kiss my ass promptly, please.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

They arent even charging the person for being over width. They are charging for seat occupancy. Airlines make money on revenue seat miles. you occupy a seat, you pay for it. It has to do with costs, weight, fuel, etc. It isn't as though someone is being charged extra for taking up the entire seat on a Carnival Ride.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

They're the same type of people who eat at McDonald's 4 days a week and complain about their weight problems.

[Redcloak]

Whataya mean I'm "overwide"?!

[tinacart]

"These fat bastards who are raising a ruckus are being self-centered. They don't care that they'd crowd the person next to them."

As a formerly fat person, I agree 100% with the charging extra money for the seats. However, this doesn't come down to an issue on fatness, it's about greed, the airlines' greed! There was a time when the seats were larger, but to make room for more passengers and make more money the seat size was decreased. Same thing with parking stalls in those parking garages. I have a smaller car and car barely get into some of them. It's all about making a buck. As everything else is being "supersized" to make more money, the airline seats are being made smaller to make more money.

[restornu]

A standard airline seat is only so wide. They're not penalizing overweight people. They're charging people who are over-width.

I got a feeling it had to do with weight, for they use to charge for the weight of the Luggage now coming in the back door charging people for weight to pay for the fuel cost?

So you shrink the seat size and force those who don't comply to pay more, and you really are charging by weight!