Airlines must now provide obese with extra seat for FREE!

[Maritime Q-Scout]

This is where CanJet was your friend.

Sure the 737's were poorly pressurized, sure the schedule wasn't as good, sure the service sucked

BUT

You got 3 entire rows to yourself!


Now to find Dr. Nick Riviera to write me a doctor's note saying how "Dangerously Overweight" I am, and reap the benefits of an additional seat. I wonder if I could get my own row? That'd be sweet!

Where's HD? He'll back me up that I need all the room on an aircraft I can get!

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by hulkrogan

Well, when I fly the person in front of me can't recline their seat, and that's unfair to them. Hopefully they don't make me buy that seat, but if they put me in business class for no extra charge I wouldn't complain.

Are you WTF tall?

If I was told I couldn't recline my seat on a plane I would be PISSED.

[Kerplunk]

Originally Posted by Boblobla

Are you WTF tall?

If I was told I couldn't recline my seat on a plane I would be PISSED.

I'm 6ft 1in (is that WTF tall?) and I barely have room when the front seat is up, never mind when they recline it. Was in pain for a good hour once when the person in front whipped the seat back into my knee.

[burn_this_city]

I'm only 6 feet and those crappy charter flights to mexico always destroy my knees. They cram so many seats in the plane you're in agony within an hour on a 7 hour trip.

[Berger_4_]

Originally Posted by Kerplunk

I'm 6ft 1in (is that WTF tall?) and I barely have room when the front seat is up, never mind when they recline it. Was in pain for a good hour once when the person in front whipped the seat back into my knee.

On a flight to Vienna from Toronto, I had the joy of:

a) an entire bloody high school band being up the whole time when I'm trying to sleep laughing and taking pictures in the dark. I'd honestly just fall asleep, and then flash! Camera goes off. Idiots.

b) lady in front of me who I think was with said band decided to recline her chair for the entire effing flight. Now, I'm only 5'10" or so, but I wanted to stab her in the face.

[The Ditch]

Why do people get mad when someone reclines their seat? Don't get mad at the person get mad at the airlines for allowing people to recline.

[algernon]

I'm on the fence regarding the above issue. That's why I usually go with the 1/2 recline.

[Table 5]

[Boblobla]

I'm 5'10" and I fly a lot with my work. I have never been on a plane, other than flying to Llyodminster, where I couldn't get my legs under the seat in front of me. Are you taller guys not able to do this? If so, that sucks man. At least now it might be easier to get a bulkhead seat since you have to pay more for them.

[mac_82]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I'd hate to see him use any bathroom anywhere. He looks like he's about 6'8" if you compare his height to the seat backs. I doubt he would even fit in two seats.

How could they even let him on the plane thats just stupidly unsafe

I work with a guy who is this size, maybe a bit bigger.

He is only about 5'10", but since he has so much girth to him, he will tower above people when he sits down. I am 6'1" and if I sit near him I have to look up to talk to him, he is about a head taller than me when we sit down. All that lard has to go somewhere.

I bet the guy in the picture isn't taller than 6'.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Boblobla

Are you WTF tall?

If I was told I couldn't recline my seat on a plane I would be PISSED.

6'7", so yes.

On long hauls I never fly discount, so if I'm flying with a friend and I've got the window, I throw one knee in my friend's space, one knee against the wall, and kind of straddle the guys reclined seat. I wasn't about to tell someone they couldn't recline on my 10 hour flight through the night back from Brazil.

Inevitably my knees get smashed to when they make the initial recline if I didn't see it coming and hadn't already assumed the position.

On cheaper flights or domestic flights, the leg room is usually slightly less. Enough there is no way in hell you can recline in front of me. Usually there is a few knee crushing attempts while I politely tap the person on the shoulder and explain to them that the reason their seat won't recline is my knees are in the way.

I can't get my meal tray all the way down on flights, which sucks. I can't see my TV very well when the person in front of me is fully reclined because the angle is too much for the LCD screen, I can't sleep unless I get the window seat because my head is well over the headrest, and I can barely walk when I get off a plane.

So yeah, I feel your pain. It must suck to not be able to recline. That must make the flight SO uncomfortable for you.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by hulkrogan

6'7", so yes.

On long hauls I never fly discount, so if I'm flying with a friend and I've got the window, I throw one knee in my friend's space, one knee against the wall, and kind of straddle the guys reclined seat. I wasn't about to tell someone they couldn't recline on my 10 hour flight through the night back from Brazil.

Inevitably my knees get smashed to when they make the initial recline if I didn't see it coming and hadn't already assumed the position.

On cheaper flights or domestic flights, the leg room is usually slightly less. Enough there is no way in hell you can recline in front of me. Usually there is a few knee crushing attempts while I politely tap the person on the shoulder and explain to them that the reason their seat won't recline is my knees are in the way.

I can't get my meal tray all the way down on flights, which sucks. I can't see my TV very well when the person in front of me is fully reclined because the angle is too much for the LCD screen, I can't sleep unless I get the window seat because my head is well over the headrest, and I can barely walk when I get off a plane.

So yeah, I feel your pain. It must suck to not be able to recline. That must make the flight SO uncomfortable for you.

Suddenly I don't feel so bad about being so short (5'6"). Flying at times has to be very uncomfortable for you.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Dion

Suddenly I don't feel so bad about being so short (5'6"). Flying at times has to be very uncomfortable for you.

Being tall is nice sometimes (sports) but being short is a lot better when flying, riding transit, sitting in back seats, shopping for clothes and shoes, shopping for cars, and walking through low doorways.

[Joborule]

Originally Posted by hulkrogan

Being tall is nice sometimes (sports) but being short is a lot better when flying, riding transit, sitting in back seats, shopping for clothes and shoes, shopping for cars, and walking through low doorways.

Sports and women. Women like to ogle at tall men.

[Mad Mel]

US domestic no-frills airline Southwest has a “customer of size” policy that insists passengers who cannot lower both armrests buy a second ticket which is reimbursed if the flight is not full.

I think this is a pretty reasonable and equitable policy.

hulkrogan, I'm 6'1" and fly a lot, and have the same problems. I can't imagine what it would be like being a half foot taller.

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I'm all for this.

There is nothing worse than being next to a really obese person on an airplane and having him "overlap" on to your seat.

Frick, I got stuck on a flight from ATL to MSP on a damned DC-9 (nice one NWA...why not just wheel out the Millennium Falcon--anyway) and of course some 450-500lb guy plops down next to me. I had window seat in the 2-seat row...I spent the whole flight pressed against the fuselage.

[drewboy12]

Originally Posted by rubecube

My friend and I were at the Saddledome for a Willie Nelson concert one evening. All of a sudden a smelly fat guy that looked like Kenny Rogers after three weeks at bacon camp sits down beside us. The guy was disgusting. Sweat leaking out of every pore and the most god awful BO. Well this jolly fellow decided that his love handles, 3/4 of his left ass cheek and 4 of his chins needed to occupy the majority of my buddy's seat.

My friend was incredibly uncomfortable but decided to be polite. We were having a quiet conversation during the first opening act, mostly because we found them terrible. Fatty leans over to my friend and bellows "If you're going to have a conversation, why don't you go to the concourse?" Now my friend, who had been a good sport thus far, was pushed over the edge by the guy's brutal Edmonton breath (some weird hybrid of vomit, pork rinds and mustard) shouts just as loudly back "If you're going to take up two seats, why didn't you buy two tickets!"

Kenny shut his mouth after that.

I think this guy had every right to tell you to go talk in the concourse... Sure he was taking up room, making your friend uncomfortable, but he payed to enjoy a show, not listen to people beside him have a conversation... Pretty rude for your friend to say that.

Anyway, yes I think this is stupid that people should have a doctors note, but I dont believe they should get a seat for free... I believe they should pay for two seats unless there is space available to acquire thus person in two seats...

[Cowperson]

Updating this story . . . . .

Federal aviation authorities investigated an Internet photo showing a massively fat flier's flab oozing hazardously into the aisle of an American Airlines plane -- but said yesterday that before the flight took off, attendants decided to give the man two extra seats, apparently in line with safety rules.

Worried that the severely obese passenger would block the plane's aisle in an emergency, American cleared out the normal-sized guy in the adjacent seat by offering him a ticket on a later flight.

Then, the American crew assigned the fat man two more seats. "The passenger in this case had a whole row to himself," said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown.


Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nationa...#ixzz0YjhKBKXl

Cowperson

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

Updating this story . . . . .

Federal aviation authorities investigated an Internet photo showing a massively fat flier's flab oozing hazardously into the aisle of an American Airlines plane -- but said yesterday that before the flight took off, attendants decided to give the man two extra seats, apparently in line with safety rules.

Worried that the severely obese passenger would block the plane's aisle in an emergency, American cleared out the normal-sized guy in the adjacent seat by offering him a ticket on a later flight.

Then, the American crew assigned the fat man two more seats. "The passenger in this case had a whole row to himself," said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown.


Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nationa...#ixzz0YjhKBKXl

Cowperson

If I was normal size guy getting asked if I'd take another flight so that gigantor can have my seat, I'd politely say f*** that - make him take a later flight!

[worth]