RE-REGULATE THE AIRLINES. IT WAS A MISTAKE TO DEREGULATE THEM.
I saw this photo at least a year ago somewhere.
Great example of why these big folks need to buy 2 seats.
Where did you get the picture? Is that the actual fat guy?
I would have a little more outrage if it weren’t for the Ever Shrinking Airline Seat.
Humans aren’t meant to be packed like sardines.
Is there a standard for seat sizes? From what I gather they keeep getting smaller all the time.
The zoning commission called and said that man is so fat he is required to install another butthole...
This happened to my brother, and I think it might even have been business/1st class (bigger seats but the guy still spilled over). My brother had to stand, flying across the nation, other than for taking off/landing.
Safety on planes has become a joke. I have yet to see any airline restrict carry one baggage that is obviously over sized and require it to be checked. When it takes two people to man handle and stuff a "carry on" bag into an overhead bin and the compartment door is visibly bulged and barely latched it is a major safety hazard. I expect to read about some passenger being killed if one of these bags becomes dislodged with turbulence.
After over an hour, the stewardess finally noticed my dilemma and instead of moving me to first class, she took the kid up into first class and gave him a seat.........
I was too relieved to get that kid away from me to complain about him getting the preferential treatment........
I wouldn’t even try to sit in my seat for take off and landing just so the pilot and co-pilot are violating the FAR that proscribes this. After the flight lands the call the FAA and tell them what happened.
The full story is that the fat dude showed up at the checkin desk and handed the airline employee two tickets. “Where’s the other party?”
asked the airline employee. “Well,” said the man,
with a blush, “you see one seat is a little small for me
and rather uncomfortable so I bought two. But they’re both really for me.”
“Okay with me, sir,” the airline employee replied, scratching her head. “There’s just one problem. Your seats are in rows fifty-one and sixty-three.”
Standing seats are coming soon.
I’ve been in this exact same situation. Fat people should be forced to sit in a test chair by ticketing and if their fat rolls don’t fit with the arm down they should be forced to buy two seats.
The airlines can’t win. They can’t raise the fares, as the public demands the cheapest fare possible. The airlines can’t make the seats bigger or further apart, for that would mean less capacity on the aircraft.
It’s been tried - people are NOT willing to pay extra for a couple of inches of extra space. People look at the price and time of the flight to their destination - they do not consider the price differential.
Don’t believe me? Ask for Economy Comfort seating next flight you take; and you’ll wonder why those seats are costing you an extra $50. Now, ask yourself if your discomfort for a couple hours is worth $50. Those seats are not the first seats the plane sells, they typically are the LAST seats that are sold.
Price reigns supreme; always has, always will.
Easy to make fun of obese people. But what about really tall people, or particular muscular people?
As a 6’5” man, I can fit only by bruising my knees from pressing them against the seat in front of me. Then some normal-sized idiot in front of me decides that its his inalienable right to recline his seat, further crushing my knees.
Easy to make fun of obese people. But what about really tall people, or particular muscular people?
As a 6’5” man, I can fit only by bruising my knees from pressing them against the seat in front of me. Then some normal-sized idiot in front of me decides that its his inalienable right to recline his seat, further crushing my knees.
I had a seat next to a morbidly obese man on a flight from Anchorage to Narita back in my Navy days. He had popped a couple of sleeping pills and was out like a light before the aircraft finished the climb-out.
I had a window seat, about an hour into the flight I had to squeeze past him to use the head. When I came back he had sprawled sprawled sideways halfway into my seat and was snoring loudly.
A stew saw me standing there looking perplexed, came over to see what was wrong, rolled her eyes and escorted me to the back where their jump seats are.
It was actually pretty cool. I got to chat and flirt with them the entire flight.
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.
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.