Obese have right to 2 airline seats -- Canada court

[gardnerp]

If I were CEO of the airlines, I would install arm rests that did not go up. "Yep, we gave you 22A and 22B. Good luck!" Or maybe I'd give two seats in separate isles...

[Lost User]

Shipping _one_ vehicle with e.g. a Ferry or Train then costs always the same....whether it is a passenger car or a truck...? I have my doubts.

[Lost User]

:thumbsup:

[Slacker007]

How can I possibly respond to this thread without offending obese people? :sigh:

[Richard Deeming]

gardnerp wrote:

Or maybe I'd give two seats in separate isles[^]...

That's a bit extreme - surely separate aisles[^] would work just as well? ;P

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[gardnerp]

Hah! Spellchecker can't fix stupid!

[Sander Rossel]

But how many meals do they get? :D

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[Nish Nishant]

Free meals on flights? What year is this? 1975?

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[Lost User]

Room on a train or ferry is cheaper compared to an airplane; room is always sparse, and even baggage is checked for weight. And yes, you are talking about "one". Now define that; if my vehicle occupies twice the room and weight, does it count as one? If yes, than mass-transportation of those items becomes cheap; link them and claim it is a single car with lotsa wheels.

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[9082365]

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[Mycroft Holmes]

gardnerp wrote:

Or maybe I'd give two seats in separate isles

Don't laugh, I have seen this done, a big guy purchased 2 seats next to each other and the allocation then gave him 2 seats in separate isles. He was not amused.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

[Wastedtalent]

Maybe Samoa Air were on to something? Samoa Air boss defends charging passengers by weight[^]

[Nelek]

You should sit him / her in the middle, so that the gravity center balance is reinforced

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[MKJCP]

Good. I hope they do this elsewhere. Airlines constructed these little prisons they call seats. I remember spending hours next to a 400 pound man and getting his sweat marks for my trouble.

[Richard Deeming]

Mycroft Holmes wrote:

2 seats in separate isles[^].

Was it Man[^] and Wight[^]? Or did you mean separate aisles[^]? ;P

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[Colin Mullikin]

It seems you just answered your own question... :-\

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[dandy72]

They should start an airline for fat people. However I suspect it wouldn't take off.

[dandy72]

Slacker007 wrote:

How can I possibly respond to this thread without offending obese people?

Don't worry about it, they have a thick skin.

[Vivi Chellappa]

Yes. Each obese passenger should be offered two aisle seats across from one another, like seats marked C and D. But how would the stewardesses roll down the food cart?

[TheGreatAndPowerfulOz]

Yes, yes they are. They're the Ultimate Bureaucrats.

Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun