I don’t buy it as a real takeoff situation.
A) There is no armrest up on his seat, so he’s got to be seating himself OVER the armrest, without even a tilt to the right to squeeze in that lardy left cheek.
B) There’s no seat belt. No way in hell does any airline allow takeoff without one.
100% fake.
it wasn’t a takeoff situation. as I understand the story,the gate agent was attempting to seal the door and order the plane to take off and was ignoring the FA’s pleas to do something about the fatso, but was being ignored. She finally took this photo and brought it up to the gate agent. They ended up bumping the man in the middle seat and upgrading him to First Class, and fatso got both seats.
I agree. If “you” look farther down the pic, there are people standing up in the aisle.