I agree...what they should have said was: "You can't fly because of your fat ass."....
that’s nothing, wait until the first one won’t fit into a TSA body scanner...
I don’t see why we can’t charge by the pound. They do that at salad and yogurt places. If you want to load up, you pay more; that includes your bags. If you’re stick thin and have only packed two black dresses, 7 scarves and a few bikinis, you pay less. No embarrassment.
Not just airlines. Stadiums and arenas too.
I have no sympathy for gluttons.
You just answer, “No, your butt makes that plane look fat”...
If your ass takes up two seats, then you need to pay for the price of two seats.
Get enough of these overweight people on aircraft and I would fear for my life as it then changes the center of gravity.
They can win all the cases they want but they can never break the law of gravity.
>>Obese passengers and airlines are on collision course<<
Great. Now how am I going to get that image out of my head?
I generally enjoy the give and take on FreeRepublic but for some reason overweight people bring out really mean spirited and hateful comments from posters.
The airline industry has for years been making seating spaces smaller at the same time the general populations have been getting larger. Rather than adjust for their customers the way furniture makers and automakers have they ridicule them. For you that do not know (except for small planes) weight is seldom an issue (other than in a possible savings of fuel). Their goal is to cram as many bodies as they can into a fixed space.
Compared to the average American of the 1900 we are all larger. It has only been in recent history that “skinny” was considered healthy. Getting big (and fat) was and is nature’s way of preparing for times of shortages.
I can guarantee most of the posters are with the mean spirited comments are young. Hey I got news for you, as you get older you are going to gain weight. One of these days you will be forced to be public humiliated so the airlines can earn an extra buck. Just remember when it happens you were all for it at the time.
Karma is a bit*h. I hope you remember how intolerant you were when a skinny kid taunts you for being old and fat.
And when a fat man and a jet engine meet...the fat man’s still going to lose.
What I know is this. I weigh 175 pounds. If my luggage weighs 51 pounds I pay $50 for the 1 pound. My luggage and I weigh 225 pounds total.
Mr. Broadsides weighs 275 pounds. His luggage weighs 49 pounds. He pays nothing for having overweight luggage. He and his luggage weigh 324 pounds total.
How is this fair?
I see plenty of obese people in historical photographs. People are not getting bigger so much as the seats have been shrinking to cram in more bodies. I will not fly any more, it is a horrible experience.
“Obese passengers and airlines are on collision course”
If you are a fat ass (and I am) and you are so fat that the airline has to make special allowances for your fatness, that alone SHOULD BE humiliating, lose some weight, fat ass.
Reminds me of the fat lady that sued a movie theatre some years ago because they didn’t have special seats to fit her 400 + pound fat ass into.
It is not anyones’ fault but my own that I am fat.
These people need to realize that it’s not about THEM. It’s about the guy who has to sit next to them - for four hours.
If their hips are wider than an airline seat charge them double!
Lock all armrests down so they can’t slop over!
For the sake of argument (and only for the sake of argument) let us say being overweight was a life style choice.
There are many life style choices people make that can cost society as a whole more if those choices were not made.
How about taking baths. Many accidents in the home occur in the bathtub.
How about smoking?
How about riding a motorcycle (with or without a helmet).
How about sexual activity. If we restricted sex to only married people and then only between their partners we can cut down on a lot of sexually transmitted diseases.
How about sporting events, how many people are injured playing baseball or football, and let us do not for get about skateboarding.
Every life style choice we make has some risk. Why condemn some but not all?
No man is an island. Those that think they are paying a cost for someone else's life style does not stop to realize someone else may be paying extra for theirs (how many people without children pay for public school?
You don't like fat people, fine, just don't pretend it is anything other than your own bias.
Airlines are a public business. They offer a service, transport a person from point A to point B for a price. If they had a rule that said no blacks could fly, they would be shut down in a second. If that is too strong for you, how about a sign that says "no one in the military could fly with them"? That is discrimination, pure and simple.
The airlines made a business decision, make seats smaller, and cram them closer together.
They then decided to demonize anyone that complains.
My dear friends here on FreeRepublic have jumpped on the band wagon and are helping them to demonize other American citizens, well all I got to say is shame on you, all of you.