Should Big Boned People Buy Two Seats

[youngmafbog]

or maybe airlines should have larger 'premium' seats ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3802277/Lawyer-suing-Emirates-airline-enduring-nine-hour-flight-seated-obese-man.html

[Quizproquo]

Mamya I care and I share...a lot, but sometimes a line has to be drawn. You must know how left of centre I am as a rule and I will always be that way.
Plane flights are bound by physics, not by hysteria, so if you take up more space you should pay more. It's common sense, not prejudice.

[ummmm]

Size 16?? What The Funicular...

[Quizproquo]

Fine! 18 then. After that you are definitely obese.

[Mamyalynne]

Just some, not all of the terminology used by some leaves a nasty taste.

I'm a skinny un but I'm not judgemental - one can acknowledge something is a problem without being cruel.

[ummmm]

Quiz - same size for both genders?

[jourdain2]

Size 16 is now average and most are not obese. Size 20 perhaps.

[ummmm]

divebuddy - i think there's a bit more psychology to it than that!

[New Judge]

"NJ
This must be the sketch which you refer to."

That's the one, pongo !!!

[jourdain2]

To clarify - all my life I've been a size 14 until 15 years ago when the menopause hit. I am now a statuesque size 16 (5'8" tall) and fit very nicely into an aeroplane seat, thank you, with room to spare, although my long legs struggle. Sizes are not the essential argument. |I mentioned size 20, and my sister is not far off that, BUT does not overlap seats and is not obese - she has lot of muscle and is large. There is no easy solution until the passenger in question is in a seat. Perhaps there should be a seat at check-in in order to check if there is likely to be a problem.

[Quizproquo]

Yeah Ummm same for both gendes. I just don't know what the male equivalent is.
As for being judgemental, I'm not. As I said, this is physics. A plane can only take so much weight so that weight has to be accounted for.
Size 16 IS obese unless you're over 6 feet tall. Accepting it as the norm is what begins the slidey slope into American obese becoming normal.
It's not normal.
For the record, I vary between a 12 and 16 depending on where I shop. I'm tall so I lose in legroom, however if I went up a size I would accept that I woulld have to face a surcharge.

[jourdain2]

Sorry quiz, you are wrong -my BMI records me as not being obese and I'm size 16 and 5' 8". A lot depends on height and physical fitness, I have only got fat around my tummy, which is hereditary, and which I can't seem to shift despite eating less than 1000 cals per day for months. Apart from that my measurements are not far over a 14, which is slender for my height. I used to be a size 14 at 36" x24"x36" - but believe me I was skinny, I have the photos to prove it, and very desireable property in my hotpants! I think that natural ageing influences are being confused with self-indulgent-overeating here. You can't help the menopause, breast material turns to fat etc.. You get bigger - or some of us get thinner, we can't help it. It is quite different from the sort of person the original post was aimed at.

One size does not fit all.

[tandh]

I'm sorry, but yes i think they should have to, it's not fair on the person next to them, and on top of that the healthy size people are paying extra for there ticket to make up for the extra fuel needed to accommodate the large people.
I do, however, have a brilliant idea to solve this problem. When you buy your ticket you specify how much you and your luggage will weigh, you then get a custom price based on this information.

[Deskdiary]

Fat people should be required to pay for two seats.

Fat people like Islay may think the Italian lawyer is a nasty person while completely ignoring the fact that it is entirely selfish of fat people to seep into another person's space who has paid for their seat, and therefore their space, but are denied the right to use the space that have paid for.

I endured a 9 hour flight once next to a morbidly obese woman and it was purgatory. She was in the middle, I was next to the window and had, conservatively, about two thirds of my allotted space.

They also pose a safety threat with their disgusting bulk.

[Cloverjo]

I was at Wimbledon once, seated next to a woman who wasn't particularly fat, but had spreading buttocks that took up about a third of my seat. She'd lean to the other side when I stood up or sat down and then repositioned herself to take the space up again. My OH is large too, so I was a bit squashed.

[RATTER15]

I love the expression "big Boned" Ive yet to see a big boned skeleton!

[PankySmooch]

On a flight home from Majorca I was sat in a window seat and was asked by a stewardess if I would give up my seat for a rather large woman who was a 'nervous flyer', I let her have my seat and sat in the aisle seat, she then spent the entire flight asleep, snoring and she stunk of B.O

[Elina]

" Big boned people" ... :0)