Posted on 04/15/2023 5:08:25 AM PDT by Callahan
seen and noted
On a trip from Chicago to Seattle I was flying standby with free tickets given to me by my brother, the airline pilot. I was sitting in a window seat; an extremely obese couple showed up and they had tickets for the aisle seat and the window seat. They did this because they need three seats to accommodate their fat asses. They wanted me to sit somewhere else, but it was a full flight. There were no other seats available.
They would not let me take the window or the aisle. So, ended up sitting between these huge squishy two lard butts. Both of them were several inches into my seat. It was muggy and both were sweating profusely all over me. There wasn't enough room for the meal table to come down. Fortunately, I had an mp3 player and was able to ignore the stinky sweat from these two that soaked completely through my clothing. I closed my eyes and listening to the music. I haven't flown standby since.
Airlines should charge passengers by the pound. We’re nothing but cargo anyway.
My younger son is a Delta Captain. I need to check how far up the food chain I am at. I generally buy a ticket on SWA when I fly, but may start doing Delta standby with prices going up so much.
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