Do you believe that obese customers on a airline should pay more for seats?
If they take up near twice the room unless its a deep medical conditions in use
Definitely.
No
too hard to determine who is worthy of the free seat and who is not
Not necessarily. I was on a flight from Melbourne to LA, and stuck sitting next to a guy who wasn't obese, but had such wide shoulders that they were pretty much in my seat. If we're going to make people pay extra, it should be based upon more than just weight. It should be based upon whether they fit, no matter the reason. Or, you know, the airlines could make the seats bigger.
As an airline employee, and someone that spends an inordinate amount of time riding in airliners, I'd like to see a moratorium on obese passengers. It should be considered a medical condition that would prevent air travel in commercial aircraft. If they want to charter specially equipped aircraft that would be acceptable.
Just make the boarding door smaller.
I find it amusing that the airline charges you extra if you are more than a few lbs over your baggage allowance but they're quite happy to charge the same for a 250lb blubberguts as a 100lb skinny. My guess is that they really, really want to but fear of backlash from the "body positive" PC brigade, you know, the same ones that think 300,000 deaths a year in the US from obesity related health issues are OK
The charge should be per seat. It isn't the airlines fault that a passenger is so fat that they can't fit their *** in a single seat. Therefore, it isn't the airline's obligation to suffer a financial loss when fat people want to fly. Yeh, charge them double.
What about the guy that isn't obese but happens to be 6 foot 7 and 300 pounds?
There are many hazards to air travel. The indoor air being primary. You can count on getting sick at some point after flying. The fat slobs, by comparison, at least you can take a bath after being larded by one.
Yes
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