Obese have right to 2 airline seats: Canada court

Yahoo News (Reuters) ^ | 11/20/2008 | Rooters

[Cementjungle]

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.

[Miss Behave]

Thanks for my schoolin' today on this, DBT! I'm rollin' over to your house to give you a *big* hug! LOL.

Izzy, I be rollin' over to your house next. ;-)

[CommerceComet]

Inside 10-12 hours I’ll drive.

That's my policy, too. No ringing phones (my cell is off), no knocking on the door, no one talking to me when I have something else that needs to be done. The solitude is nice. Besides, I like to drive and see new country.

[Izzy Dunne]

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Just sprinkle some magic pixel dust, and voilå!

[Miss Behave]

It's TOTALLY magic. Did you say sprinkles? YUM.

[Hacklehead]

“Simple solution: stop charging by seat and charge by weight. Base ticket price of, say, $200 covers a passenger + luggage of up to 300 lbs. Passenger pays $2/lb over this.”

Thats a great idea. Can you imagine the outrage of women forced to get on a scale before they can board a flight. Even better if they have to have their hips measured to see if they fit the seat. It would be awesome. Only thin women would fly.

[kittycatonline.com]

Yes, but do the anorexic only have the right to half of a seat?

[MarkT]

In the U.S. that would be a ‘taking’ and unconstitutional. Just advise fatso to try Sugarbusters and start walking. Pretty soon, fatso will fit in one seat.

[Eagle Eye]

I can stop for Wendy’s any time I want, take a restroom break any time I want, and don’t have to leave Smith and Wesson at home.

[Mark was here]

My little brother is a big guy 400 plus. when he was a little guy back in the late 60’s he had his tonsils removed. It took 9 hours to get his adenoids out. It was a sign of things to come. After high school he shot up to 6’ 7”. I'm just a runt now at 6’ 2”. It was just the luck of the draw.

[Cementjungle]

Yes, but do the anorexic only have the right to half of a seat?

Smokers should have the right (again) to smoke on long flights.

[Windflier]

Typical libs. Always finding a “right” to someone else’s dime.

[A knight without armor]

This isn’t right in any way. I think a wide person can have two seats as long as they pay full price for two seats. Even a slim person who wants extra room should have two seats as long as they pay for two seats.

[A knight without armor]

“Smokers should have the right (again) to smoke on long flights.”

I do, too. On any flight, IMHO.

[RFEngineer]

This one is easy...

Just change gates at the last minute. They’ll never make it, and everyone else flies comfortably.

[Angry_White_Man_Syndrome]

I’m 6’4”, 240 lbs. It is not the width of the seat that is a problem it is leg room. Where do I sue to get them to take the seat in front of me out?

[trumandogz]

That is exactly my point.

And we know that being being fat is a lifestyle choice.

[Cementjungle]

I do, too. On any flight, IMHO.

My favorite airline was Air Algeria back in the 80's. They had smoking on rhe right and non-smoking on the left. Of course you had to smoke to take the edge off the fear of flying in beat up old third-hand airplanes.

[fanfan]

So that's why Air Canada's two for one sale ends today!

[Atlas Sneezed]

I am amazed that the airlines haven’t consider the obvious neutral option: price tickets by the pound, for the passenger and all accompanying baggage, including carryons.

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APPLAUSE!!!!!

It may not be strictly linear, and passenger weight is self-loading, while you need to hire employees to process bags, but there ought to be a way.

They should offer fatties the chance to buy 1.5 seats, and share a triple with another fatty.

They have those bins to measure your carry-ons. Why not a test seat for fatties? And if they can’t fit, there should be a special no-fly list so airlines know to sell two seats, or insist on selling the upgrade.

When a fatty buys a single seat they know won’t fit them without using up my paid space, they are demonstrating the height of anti-social rudeness.

Then, there was the time when I sat next to the steroidal freak bodybuilder, and the male (ahem) flight attendant took HIS side when he was flexing his muscles well into my space...

[Atlas Sneezed]

I’ve got it! Seat the skinny kids next to the fatties! Lift the armrast and make ‘em all suffer!