Posted on 11/22/2011 1:40:25 PM PST by Daffynition
At nearly seven hours, US Airways flight 901 is one of the longest domestic nonstop airline flights. And Arthur Berkowitz knows how long it takes to get from Anchorage to Philadelphia down to the minute. That’s because he says he had to stand for most of the flight when he returned to Philly last July.
Why would anyone stand for that long? Because he says a morbidly obese passenger seated next to him was spilling into his personal space, making it impossibly to sit in his assigned seat, and the flight was completely full.
I had this happen to me. I forced down the arm rest between me and a fatso, and that totally PO’ed the guy. If anyone had to stand, it was not going to be me.
I agree, but I am willing to pay up to an extra $20 to guarantee an aisle seat.
Last year I went to an Eric Clapton concert in the Fort Lauderdale area.
extreme fat chick sits next to me and tries to take over half my chair. I stood up and sat back down and nearly knocked her off her chair when I reclaimed my seat.
I paid real good money for my seat and it was NOT hers.
Besides, she stank.
Any rational person would understand that you can't put two humans in the space of one.
Where was he supposed to sit? Underneath the morbidly obese passenger next to him?
That's a version of hell with long underwear...what a double whammy.
I will never fly on some types of aircraft ever again. Ever been on one of these?
LOL!!
A dress code would take care of that. Not dressed well enough for work in a normal office situation? You aren't flying.
I have yet to see any airline restrict carry one baggage that is obviously over sized and require it to be checked.
I saw it this past Sunday while waiting to take off for Buffalo...on US Airways.
The flight attendant saw the size of a woman’s ‘carry on’ and told her she’d need to check the bag immediately because it was over sized. I was shocked. That never happens. The woman started to complain but the flight attendant simply told her she was free to take another flight because that bag was not going into an overhead compartment.
Same thing happened to me on a US Airways flight - on a flight that was about 25% full with plenty of overhead space.
The flight attendant was rude as hell.
I took her up on her suggestion that I use another airline on the spot and walked back to the ticket counter of another airline.
She made it very plain to me that neither she nor any other US Airways employee could care less whether I flew with them or not.
I have absolutely no doubt that she was being 100% candid with me.
That was 4 years and about $250,000 + in passenger revenues ago.
I tend to fly a lot but I have never had this problem with any other airline.
Uh, looks uncomfortable, lol! Were you crippled afterwards??
The smallest plane I’ve been in, besides a four-seater, was just to island hop in Hawaii, so nothing very long....
I visited JFK’s presidential plane at our local air and space museum, I barely fit in that. Nothing like feeling Amazonian :0-)
What? It isn't?
If I pay for my seat, am I not allowed to recline it because you are sitting behind me?
-PJ
Behold, the union mentality.
Reagan.
I was on one just like that from Bangkok to Vientiene - with bald tires to boot.
In the Flight Atendant’s seat. Or the jump seat if you will. Up front. By the door.
Not the best seat in the house. But better than sitting with a fat slob. And certainly better than standing.
Now. I understand “they” told him he couldn’t sit there. Against regulations.
So the question is... should he have taken that like a good stupid sheep? Should he have made a stand - and possibly get arrested upon landing? Should he stand for 9 hours?
I would have pushed the envelope. I would have caused a scene. I would have gone far - but not TOO far so as to not get myself in trouble.
And every minute I stood. I would have LOUDLY made comments.
But that’s just me.
Now it's welfare mommas in sweatpants with their brown bag full of leftovers and their little retards crying and kicking the back of your cardboard-thin seat.
De-regulation only gave us the illusion of less expensive air travel. All it really bought us was the ruination of what used to be about the finest thing America had to offer. Deregulation made us more Soviet.
We need to admit that everything that America used to great has basically become shit. But at least we're all equally shit now, comrade.
I visited a monastery near Stuttgart some years back and the "seats" for the
brothers attending church services looked somewhat like these. They were
made of wood, had no armrests, and the actual seat was a semicircular piece of
wood that projected out from the back board about 4 inches. The upper portion
was shaped like a small coffin. I'd bet that no one fell asleep during services.
Regards,
GtG
LOL! Close. Brings a new meaning to "up close and personal."
That plane seats 37. Now you're actually going to feel better when it's full. Why, you ask? Weight distribution. I once flew with four other passengers...total...on that plane. The 20-ish flight attendant was looking at her chart and moving us around before takeoff to distribute our weight safely. That's a real confidence booster.
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