TDPS: Should overweight people have to buy 2 plane tickets?

[celtics23]

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[stubtoe]

1. Why not just make the seats bigger??

Even us skinny folk resent being squashed in like sardines.

[boycottfaux]

3. Long flights, Yes

Especially on long flights, having someone else's butt overlap
me for hours and hours.  Makes me crazy . .

[dmallind]

2. Sure - if overweight as defined in one of two ways

1 - physically unable to sit in a single fixed armrest seat - this would limit the defintion currently to the exceptionally obese. I go about 280 and have not the slightest problem. Many people larger by far than me manage just fine too.

2 - anyone who overflows the width of the seat. The "average" person THINKS this is what they want, because they dont want my shoulders (no fat to speak of there for me) in their space. What they never realize of course is that their shoulders are in mine too. The average width of a coach seat is 17". Use your garage wall and have somebody pencil off how wide you are. If you are an adult male, unless you get called "titch" or ride racehorses for a living, chances are you are considerably over 17" wide. If you are female you have more chance - assuming that is you are either preteen-petite or a model. Basically since arm width * 2 usually about equals torso depth, unless you have a chest measurement under 34, you're going to be overflowing.

So take your pick - because if the definition is anything but 1, and it gets applied to me because I overflow the seat, I'm suing to make it apply to anyone who overflows the seat - which is almost all of you.

[stubtoe]

4. Agreed. I clock in at half your weight and my butt overfloweth the seat.

[dmallind]

5. funnily enough my butt is not the problem

and even where my considerably excess weight is - the gut - does not intrude on others' space. But my hulking upper body certainly does. I say often and accurately that I am 210lbs of solid muscle - I just weigh 280. I suppose if I lost all the blubber my shoulders and torso would be a touch narrower, but the vast majority would still be there, and I wouldn't fit in to a normal airline seat by a long way if I were plasticized.