guppie

What about the gassers? The people who smell like they shat? Over and over. Need to change their diet or take some GasX. Jeez. That stuff could gag a goat and lingers on forever. Shew!


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CCtiQTQQ7QA

PSU Flyer

I eat salads.

busdriver12

I have had "normally" sized people spill into my seat, and do obnoxious things. I have had overweight people be exceptionally careful to not spill into my seat. Size doesn't always matter.

But anyone who is crazy, obnoxiously rude needs to be removed. Ain't no one who wants to sit next to them, no matter their size. It would have been easy for her to discreetly ask for another seat. She wasn't being politically incorrect, she was being a jerk. I'd rather sit between two hugely overweight people who are nice, than two cranky loud mouthed aholes.

Speedbird2263

Touché. Well played.

Fr8Thrust

The standard E-Jet seats come with adjustable winged-headrests and support cushion back and bottom. For $ome reason the UA-owned 175s use something different. Makes flying on one no different than the CRJ.

at6d

Flag on the play.

Use of Bologna in a fat shaming discussion.

Five yard penalty, repeat first down.

Onfinal

If they paid for a ticket that entitles them to a pre-assigned seat, then that's their right to choose whichever combination they desire. Pretty straight forward to me.

busdriver12

Me and my spouse often book aisle/window, leaving the center seat empty. It's likely that it will go unfilled, and if one of us is upgraded and the other isn't, nobody is stuck in the center seat. Nothing wrong with that. You pay the fare or fly enough to get the status, you get the good seats.

jDSTJD

I agree that over the long term there should be an overall societal effort to encourage weight loss and healthier living and these unfortunate instances should serve to incentivize that. However, in the meantime you are going to have larger people who will have to travel by air and have no other options for transportation due to any number of reasons so it isn’t practical to demand that they pay for a second seat or expect them to do so when they likely can’t afford to. So this leaves people in a very uncomfortable, frustrating and precarious situation which makes everyone’s traveling experience miserable which I think is contrary to the customer service goals of the airlines. So maybe in the short term, airlines can offer some seats throughout the aircraft that have wider seat space that accommodate larger passengers and allow/encourage those passengers to pay a slightly higher price to reserve those seats at the time of booking (as opposed to making them pay for an entire additional seat or embarrass them when everyone else is on the plane and staring at them). I understand that isn’t going to be economically attractive to airline management...and I don’t know how that would shake out as far as seating layout on the planes, but it’s a an idea. It may help make passengers, both large and small, more comfortable and reduce instances of confrontations between passengers if there were more seat sizes available in coach. Please don’t bite my head off

tomgoodman

A compromise?!! Seize the blasphemer!!