[wrench]

The "standard" FAA passenger weight is 170 pounds. The seats are designed to support this payload up to 2.5 g's. There is little,if any, reserve strength in the seats.

Transport catagory aircraft are designed to operate at gross weight with a plus or minus 1.75 g loading (been a long time, but I think that is right, around 2 g's or so)

A 350 pound (or larger) passenger will damage a typical airline seat in a hard landing or during an encounter with severe turbulence. If the turbulence is bad enough, the seat can totally fail and injure a passenger seated in the row behind .

I have repaired many seats damaged by "plus" sized passengers. The airlines have every right to charge extra for such passengers, it costs more to haul their butts around the sky.

[alaskanfan]

What should you do if you don't fit the "standards" demand reparations?

After all it is taxpayer funded.