fat people and planes

jeanniebeanie_2

mr_lahey wrote: »

make them all sit next to each other and see how long it is before they choose to willingly purchase another seat.

Brilliant!!!!!!!!:T

2010

Why stop at airplane seats,cinema,theatre,football stadia,anywhere that you pay for a seat shouldn`t it be doubled if you "overhang" it.

jeanniebeanie_2

If you "overhang" it enough to cause a problem/discomfort to the person sitting next to you then so be it! I know this is MONEYSAVING, but you can't always have two for the price of one!

Happychappy

malkie76 wrote: »

....but you do conceed that it isn't the thyroid which causes the weight gain, correct ?

The problem of obesity is actaully a matter of physics, it's where the individuals cakehole is bigger than their !!!!!!

Murphy_The_Cat

phatbear wrote: »

Hell yeah and if someone tall wants to sit behind me thats their problem not mine if I want to recline my seat as far as it will go.

Which goes quite some way to explaining why things like the Knee Defender are available.

If/when airlines remove the recline ability of seats in Cattle Class, I'll be a happy camper.**

** but its all related to the airlines trying to squeeze more people into a space taht it is suitable for :mad:

jeanniebeanie_2

Murphy_The_Cat wrote: »

Which goes quite some way to explaining why things like the Knee Defender are available.

If/when airlines remove the recline ability of seats in Cattle Class, I'll be a happy camper.**

** but its all related to the airlines trying to squeeze more people into a space taht it is suitable for :mad:

Have to admit to having some sympathy for the tall guy. last overnight flight I had a guy's knees in the back of my seat, so he clearly wouldn't want me to recline, BUT I couldn't get a wink of sleep sitting upright (I never recline a seat daytime). Neither of us were happy. On a flight to Hong Kong recently (Cathay Pacific) I had a fixed back shell seat (peasant class still) in which the seat reclined without encroaching behind AND I didn't feel knees - much better.

ferf1223

this is basically the same thing they do on Southwest in the US.

I'm not a small girl, but I can contain myself to the confines of an airline seat...I do not disagree with the idea that someone who can't should have to purchase a second seat - it's not fair on other passengers to be squashed...I get that...frankly if I were so big as to have this be an issue, I would probably prefer to buy an extra seat to avoid the discomfort and potential embarrassment myself.

BUT...I've been on flights before where I've been stuck next to a very tall VERY broad guy and spent the flight squashed up against my husband on the other side - that wide he was...but he was not under any definition 'obese' or 'fat' or 'overweight'. He was just a massive guy, but very physically fit...just huge.

I wonder how they will measure - the guy fit into the seat itself, with the armrests down - but his width was in his torso...effectively taking up a portion of my seat, but not the actual seat part itself.

In the case of Southwest, I believe the test is sitting in the seat with the armrests down...so if that's the case here, the guy taking up a good part of my seat due to his hugeness wouldn't have to buy an extra seat...that seems unfair to me.

Dave101t

we have 'fat fighters'. why not 'fat flyers'?
surely this is a potential hazard in event of evacuation:

ferf1223

Murphy_The_Cat wrote: »

If/when airlines remove the recline ability of seats in Cattle Class, I'll be a happy camper.**

Hear hear...I'm only 5'8" but have arrived with bruises on my knees due to the hideous passenger in front of me before. I almost never recline - even long-haul, and if I do, it's an tiny, tiny bit just to slightly change angle. I love it when people complain about the passenger behind kicking their seat through the flight - the only time I 'kick' the seat in front is when my knees are wedged in such that I cannot possibly move at all without 'kicking' the seat in front.

I don't know why it is that travel brings out the selfish in people.

Don't get me started on the scrum at the luggage carousel.

wallbash

on the scrum at the luggage carousel.

Another rich vein of contention.:rotfl:

Its the little kids/ old grannies etc who cant get the heavy suitcases off the moving belt, but are determined to get in the way of us , who can.
Or its the large family , all who must be there, why not just let the fittest , get them off.

Or the ones who want to put the trolley right next ( in everyone's way) to the belt:mad: