[Reaganwuzthebest]

Looks like the airlines are desperate to sell tickets.

[Jorge]

LOL! This is too funny.

[r9etb]

A few weeks back I saw a guy who actually had to force his butt to fit between the armrests. That was bad enough, but his seatmate was a rather burly guy as well.

That musta been one uncomfortable ride....

[DoughtyOne]

You haven't lived until you've been placed between two of these 350 pounders on a long trip.

[Billthedrill]

Wait a minute - "person of size?" I'm offended! I'm a person of size, too - small and skinny is a size too. We have just as much right to use the "person of size" sobriquet as weight-challenged lardbuckets. I mean that in the nicest possible way.

I'm suing.

[Endeavor]

If the airlines are going to do this (and I wish they would - I fly several times a month and get tired of being squeezed by "people of size"), then they'd better also not put another customer in the "extra" seat.

[Paul Atreides]

Person of size? Is it me, or are we all "of size"?

[LibKill]

Hell's donkeys! I'm a short thin dude and I find airplane seats cramped.

I can't imagine what torture it must be for the big sized folks and now they want them to pay double?

[HiTech RedNeck]

They should have spillover test seats, just like they have test frames for carry on luggage. Then the determination would be objective.

[mystery-ak]

I sympathize with all you flyers, but this happened to me at a theater(to see We Were Soldiers).
I got there early to get a good seat and the theater filled up rapidly...my luck, there was an empty seat next to me...you guessed it, I spent the next two hours leaning on my right side with no place to move!

[ghost of nixon]

the only fair way to do this is to charge by the pound

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Seems to me they could avoid offending anybody (too seriously anyway) by just having 'weight classes'. After all, isn't weight of the plane directly correlated to fuel usage, and hence, profit loss? Just have three classes: under 100, 100-250, and 250+. And they can pick some weight/height ratio limit that determines whether you have to pay for the adjacent seat or not. At least it's more dignified than having your ass measured!

[ellery]

Isn't this just a logical extension of the bag limit?

[xp38]

This is a lawsuit waiting to happen. There is already one that hit the news here in Canada from some woman of size claiming discrimination from the airlines for making her pay for two seats.

[csvset]

Huh, his ticket was "supersized".

Now, will they serve him two meals? "I'm eating for two."

[TheLooseThread]

"And he was hopping mad."

I hope he wasn't hopping mad on the flight.

[flair2000]

I flew from Virginia to Texas one time on a cramped MD-80 and was seated next to a very big woman (I was in the window seat, and boy did I get an up-close view of the window). There were some guys who I worked with who were on the flight (we were going to a company function), and I ended up being the butt of several jokes when we arrived at our destination (no pun intended).

[Tony in Hawaii]

Buncha skinny weasel whiners, next time I'll sit on ya instead of next to ya!

[No Truce With Kings]

What would Nero Wolfe say?

Pfui!

[Snoopers-868th]

From a smoker..... MUSIC TO MY EARS. Make the beached whales exercise "outdoors" on their lunch hours--it is good for their health and they need our help.