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Quoted: I have asked to be seated next to an attractive single female. It never worked. View Quote While I didn't ask for it, I had a flight once where I was in the aisle seat; the middle and window seats were taken up by a pair of teeny little Japanese girls that couldn't have weighed more than 90 pounds each. 45 minutes into the flight, the girl next to me fell asleep with her head on my shoulder. She smelled like a poem. It was the most pleasant flight ever. |
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Quoted: I love the tards who argue the airlines should just make seats bigger. They'd be the first to complain when seat prices went up in direct proportion to that change. They always act like it's a "free" solution and that airlines would just magically absorb the decrease in passengers per flight. View Quote They make bigger seats, its called first class. |
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Quoted: I love the tards who argue the airlines should just make seats bigger. They'd be the first to complain when seat prices went up in direct proportion to that change. They always act like it's a "free" solution and that airlines would just magically absorb the decrease in passengers per flight. View Quote |
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I had to sit next to a landwhale on a recent trip from DFW to FL. Took her a few minutes just to be able to wedge herself into the seat and I'm not sure if she was actually able to buckle her belt because it disappeared under one of her folds. She overflowed the armrest into my seat for 2.5 hours. She had to lean out into the aisleway just to give me room for my lungs to expand regularly, which then meant everyone who passed us to go to the toilet had to walk sideways when passing our aisle. I held my pee because there was no way I would have been able to get past her stomach onto the aisle. Isn't that a safety hazard???
That and a kid kicking the back of my seat (then throwing up) from JFK to Germany have been my two worst experiences. |
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Quoted: Say he and I grab lunch at McDonalds together. Should we pay the same amount for our orders? View Quote Is he eating more than you? Transportation is about taking up space, he is certainly taking up more space. If he fits into a normal seat without infringing on another passenger’s space he should be paying normal price but that clearly isn’t the case. |
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Quoted: What would they do with those seats on flights where nobody is morbidly obese? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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The airlines already do have a test they could implement to see if your too large to fly or not. If you can't fit through the planes bathroom door, you have to buy an extra seat, or not fly. Put that door at the gate. :)
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Even if you bought two seats, I could see the airlines charging you extra to have them next to each other.
Or even in the same row. Flying commercially sucks in general now, and this is just another symptom. On the last flight I took, in 2019, I had a huge woman spilling over the armrest onto me for an entire flight to Detroit. It really set the tone for the whole trip. |
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Quoted: People always say they want more space in their seat, but then they’ll choose the shittiest airline to save $2. View Quote It’s been over 5 years since my last flight and even than I was forced by my wife. I don’t fly because airlines are shitty period. Add government tsa as a special thank you for list of reasons why I don’t fly. I got my balls feeled up so my kid could have a juice box. |
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They really need those carry-on measuring frames, but for passengers. Don't fit through the frame? You're buying an extra seat.
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And i am there unpacking and repacking my Wifes suitcases at the airport because the stupid retarded new automated machines cant average the weight of two suitcases for two people traveling together.
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I 100% support just rolling these types out of the door mid flight. the crater impacts would be incredible.
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The pic of eddie hall and brian shaw sitting 2 wide in a 3 seat row always cracks me up
Cant figure out how to embed pic https://people.com/travel/two-worlds-strongest-men-sit-next-to-each-other-plane/ |
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I mean, he got on the plane he had to have known the seat would be too small for him. So what did they think is going to happen?
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Quoted: The pic of eddie hall and brian shaw sitting 2 wide in a 3 seat row always cracks me up Cant figure out how to embed pic https://people.com/travel/two-worlds-strongest-men-sit-next-to-each-other-plane/ View Quote You can clearly see that's a 2-seat row. |
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When he goes to lunch, does fatty have to pay for a second sandwich if one doesn’t fill him up? Should the restaurant just give him a second sandwich for free because he’s fat?
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Quoted: What about seat belts? I doubt any plane seat belt would fit around that slob. So you are sitting next to him, turbulence hits. Since he is "too big" to fit in a seat belt, he ends of on top of you. Life sucks lol. I only fly when absolutely necessary. View Quote They have seat belt extenders. One may not be adequate for that person. Are they limited to one extender? |
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That fatass probably couldn't fit through an emergency exit door. He'd probably pop the inflatable slide like it was a party balloon.
They need a narrow door to the jetbridge - don't fit then you don't fly. That would also get rid of the shitheads who bring giant bags, carry 87 pounds of garbage with them, or hold up everybody else by gate checking their bag to avoid paying $30 for a checked bag. |
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I've sat next to a few fatties in my day, but that's a BIG boy. Damn.
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Quoted: And i am there unpacking and repacking my Wifes suitcases at the airport because the stupid retarded new automated machines cant average the weight of two suitcases for two people traveling together. View Quote |
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Quoted: I've got broad shoulders, and I'm fairly fit. The broad shoulders can be an issue in coach when another broad shoulder guy has the seat next to me. I basically just fly first class now, so problem solved. Luckily, I've never sat next to a whale like that. I'd probably try to switch seats if possible. View Quote |
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Quoted: There would be two seats in place of three assuming that is an adequate size/width. Leave it in that configuration. If no whale uses it, maybe someone in a wheel chair...or someone gets upgraded to that seat. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: OK but what about all the flights where you don’t have someone willing to pay for that seat because they’re not land whales. Now you’ve lost revenue where you could have three other seats for each one of those ridiculously oversize seats You’d have to reconfigure That particular row every flight based upon the occasional obese person. Which means at each location you fly to you would have to have spare seats and different sizes There would be two seats in place of three assuming that is an adequate size/width. Leave it in that configuration. If no whale uses it, maybe someone in a wheel chair...or someone gets upgraded to that seat. The major airlines make way more profit on their premium class seats than they do on economy. A huge incentive for someone to upgrade their seat is extra space. If the airlines created a psuedo business/first class sized seat that was cheaper, they would automatically be competing against themselves for that higher revenue. So a normal sized passenger that otherwise would have purchased a first class seat decides that they will sit in the same sized seat a few rows back, forgo the crappy meal, and still save money even if they pay for a few drinks. Then you are left with this exact same situation, only now the person who did pay for that seat gets shamed for not giving it up to the fatty. Changing out plane configs with new seats is not a trivial task, especially when it has to be done on hundreds of them to ensure continuity across fleets. There would be significant up front costs to the airlines just to get it setup only to likely have it followed by lowered revenue than they had before. |
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I don't feel sorry for people that are that HUGE.
To maintain that kind of weight, you basically have to work at it......I bet that guy is eating 8K calories a day of nothing buy junk food. It takes serious skill to get that fat. |
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Imagine the smell. Imagine the sweat and grease rubbing against you.
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Quoted: Reach into carryon and remove something that weighs a pound. Insert under your shirt. Reweigh carryon. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: And I had to pay an extra $50 because my carry on bag weighed 1 pound too much yet this guy weighs 4 times as much as me. Reach into carryon and remove something that weighs a pound. Insert under your shirt. Reweigh carryon. If there is a weight fine over a bag that I am carrying why is their not a weight fine over the hundreds of pounds of fat that he is carrying? I plus my bag weigh 1/3 his weight so why would I have to pay a "fine" if my bag that only I have to carry is slightly over weight. |
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Quoted: That's not the issue. If there is a weight fine over a bag that I am carrying why is their not a weight fine over the hundreds of pounds of fat that he is carrying? I plus my bag weigh 1/3 his weight so why would I have to pay a "fine" if my bag that only I have to carry is slightly over weight. View Quote Reserve your ticket at a nominal price, when you get to the airport, you and all your bags go on a scale. Your final ticket price is adjusted from there. |
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