[RobRoy]

The airlines may want to have different sizes of seats in the coach section, and charge according to what size you pick. Or better yet, charge passengers by the pound (I'm not joking). Then they could put the person in two seats since he'll end up paying for it. 8^>

That's capitalism at it's best - people pay for what they use and only for what they use!

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

"Or better yet, charge passengers by the pound (I'm not joking)."

That is the best and fairest solution I have yet heard.

[eno_]

Jet Blue is all business class. Maybe someone should start AnorexiAir and fly 700 people in a 727. One peanut each. And a spoon to shove down their throats. The barf bag is an established tradition.

But seriously... nobody has sued Jet Blue. Treating customers well can be the right thing to do.

[Cypher1223]

I like the variable seat size idea -- but doubt very much that the airlines would be agreeable to retrofitting their aircraft with bigger seats.

Charging fat people for two seats isn't the solution either. I think the solution to the problem is that if you are stuck next to or between obese passengers, you should have two options 1) to be reseated; and, 2) if no additional seats are available then you receive either a partial refund or discounted travel on a future flight.

Everyone has a right to fly -- but when someone else's right infringes on someone elses right then the airline must make accomodation.

[ravinson]

Or better yet, charge passengers by the pound (I'm not joking).

That's really the fairest way to do it, since the amount of fuel the plane uses is a function of the weight it is carrying.