Do you expect to mail a 100-lb package for the same price as a 10-ounce one?
Airlines costs are of lifting weight. Weigh more, pay more.
You don't like it? Drive. You'll buy more gas and your car will wear sooner. Tough.
You think lawsuits are answers? Bovine excrement.
You want to beg Big Brother to handle your whines, go away.
You think you got a better way to run an airline? Go do so.
Bull! I am not tiny by a long shot but I do only require one seat. I flew to Atlanta last week on Delta with a woman in the next seat that weighted 300 if she weighed an ounce and I couldn't move without touching her. I'm sure she was uncomfortable squeezed into one seat. Two seats would have been exactly what she needed.
It was a miserable trip for both of us. The longest two hours of my life. She was flying on to New York. I wonder who got the honor of squeezing up against her the rest of the way.
I did a little digging on this and here is what I found:
Originally posted on my blog at this link.
When a frequently flying fatty sued SWA back in 2000 the suit was dismissed. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marilyn Hoffman threw out the case when she agreed with Southwest its policy on overweight passengers is neither illegal nor discriminatory. (ADA, anyone?)
Fatties cry foul over airlines charging double fare
Sunday, December 17, 2000Airlines in America will be able to charge obese customers an extra fare if they spill on to adjacent seats after a judge dismissed a lawsuit by a 135kg woman who sued for discrimination.
The decision angered America's politically correct lobby and shocked observers who had grown used to the country's tireless campaigners for equal rights.
Cynthia Luther, from California, complained after Southwest Airlines asked her to pay for her own, plus a neighbouring, seat. The airline said her bulk made the adjacent seat unusable.
Miss Luther claimed this was "fat discrimination".
The airline initially told Miss Luther she would have to hire a seatbelt extension because the regular ones were not long enough to fit round her.
Then Southwest told her she would have to buy the other seat or not be allowed on the flight.
The airline tried to soften the blow by telling Miss Luther she would be entitled to receive two snacks - one for each fare she had purchased.
Miss Luther filed a discrimination lawsuit claiming the airline harassed and embarrassed her. But Superior Court Judge Marilyn Hoffman agreed with Southwest lawyer Arthur Willner.
"The procedure and policy is directed in any situation where it appears for whatever reason a passenger might significantly encroach on another passenger," she said.
Also see the case of Arlene Edelman, an 800 pounder that had to buy TWO AND A HALF TICKETS back in the early 1990's