Sansarya

This is stupid and sad.

United Airlines bumping bigger passengers?

700 complaints? Out of millions of passengers? That's bullshit.

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Arilynn

United Airlines announced that it will now start bumping obese passengers from sold-out flights. They will be asked to buy two adjacent tickets or upgrade to business class on the next flight. If the passenger decides not to upgrade or adjacent seating is not available, the ticket will be refunded without charge.

I wonder how many people this will affect, especially if more airlines adopt this policy. A recent article in Forbes found slightly more than 1 bump per 10,000 passengers last year, for a total of more than 60,000 people bumped last year.

ChicagoTribune.Com: United Airlines to Start Charging Obese for Two Seats, or Bump Them from Packed Flights

Chip Midnight

I'm not the complaining type, so I (and I suspect millions of others) would not be reflected in such a statistic, but having sat next to people on airplanes whose love handles have been flopped over the arm rest into my lap, I have a hard time seeing this as a bad thing, as insensitive as that may seem.

Eirik

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Sansarya

They give tall passengers extra leg room, I don't see the problem with giving fat passengers more seat room and tiny people less seat room. It should balance out. 700 complaints out of millions who fly?

Sarah Nerd

Or they could make normal sized seats instead of packing everyone in so fucking tight in an effort to get as many seats in as possible.

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Chip Midnight

They do? How? The seats are bolted to the floor.

Chip Midnight

Yeah, this strikes me as a temporary solution at best. At some point they're going to have to start building airplanes to more comfortably accommodate the extra girth of today's average passenger.

Sansarya

Tall passengers can request special seating in the front row or in the aisles where the doors are located. Those rows have more leg room.

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Arilynn

Sans, we must read the paper at the same time - duplicate thread.

Chip Midnight

I assume that extra wide individuals can request aisle seats when flights aren't full as well. That might make them more comfortable, but it won't do anything for the person next to them, especially if they happen to be stuck in the middle seat between two extra large passengers.

Alessa Sapphire

I guess my question would be, if there are so many people complaining about having to "share" their seat with someones love handles .... why wont AA put maybe 2 XL chairs on each plane?
Does this not make sence?
Yes they may miss out on a few dollars, but they can keep everyone happy... I dont get it.

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Eirik

Personally I'd love to fly in a plane where I can get the assurance that I won't have to share the seat I paid hundreds of euros for with some other guy's fat rolls.

And yes, I think the low number is mostly because of the low amount of people who bother filing a formal complaint. Too much bureaucracy for that.

But I do agree that airplane seats should be made to fit the average person and a few sizes more. Still, you can't expect every airplane to be built built for morbidly obese people.

Sansarya

Heh, I PM'd Cris to get the threads combined or mine deleted. I swear I looked first to see if anyone had posted this yet.

Joy Honey

The airlines won't be happy missing out on a few dollars.

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Don Mill

It is true that, usually, the first row and the exit rows provide more leg room. It is not because they want to give that extra room but because they need the space to allow passengers to deplane safely in an emergency situation.

I am one of those passengers that always request an emergency row sit... simply because, I don't fit into a regular sit.

RandoymRandt

Whats funny about this is that those bulkhead seats usually are smaller in width because the arm rests have to include the screens and tray tables and don't raise up.

SO, you can be tall, but you'd better not be large and tall, because they steal an extra inch or so from you.

Also kinda annoying when you've recently had a baby and use those seats (which accommodate bassinets). They gonna kick those women off too?

Arilynn

Thanks. I looked too. I think we started our threads at the same time, and you must be a faster than me.

Chip Midnight

There's a good chance that reducing the number of people they try to pack onto single flights would encourage more people to fly and actually increase their revenues.

Sansarya

What about people with allergies who have to sit next to someone wearing too much perfume, or a smoker?

RandoymRandt

they do put XL seats on planes. It's called biz class.

Ewan Took

I thought it was standard practice already to charge people for two seats if they need them?

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Eirik

People are allowed to smoke on US planes?

RandoymRandt

Where's the thread about the person who is deathly alergic to peanuts and can't fly on planes that serve them? I think we discussed that here too...