Hoooge People and Planes

[DG]

Should Persons of Size (big size) have to buy a 2nd seat on an airplane if they're HUGE!!

Got on te plane back home today and this guy and his wife are inthe seats next to me.

The woman was big but her husband was huge, his waist must have been about 60 to 70 inches!!

I was lucky though cos after everyone boarded they found there was a free row so they moved to the row of three seats but if not I could have been sat very uncomfortably for 11 hours!!

[Kentish]

I can't remember which comedian came up with this but he said passengers should be given a weight limit for baggage and passenger combined, rather than the current 20 kilo baggage allowance. As an incentive for more generously proportioned passengers to lose weight.

[morrocan roll]

[Bri-namite]

Yup.

And they should also be weighed at the check in desk and have to pay extra baggage costs if necessary.

And on a return journey they get weighed again, but if they weigh any more than when they did.when they arrived, they're going nowhere till they lose some weight.

And if they start sweating and generally annoying the other customers, they get thrown out without a parachute.

Imagine if you were on a plane and the whole thing was constantly tilted to one side because some greedy person can't stop eating cakes and crisps.

[DG]

Originally posted by Kentish
I can't remember which comedian came up with this but he said passengers should be given a weight limit for baggage and passenger combined, rather than the current 20 kilo baggage allowance. As an incentive for more generously proportioned passengers to lose weight.

That's exactly wha I was thinking, it aint fair you get 20kg and weigh maybe 65kg when the next guy is like 100kg in weight!!!

[Kentish]

Originally posted by Bri-namite
Imagine if you were on a plane and the whole thing was constantly tilted to one side because some greedy person can't stop eating cakes and crisps.

roflol

That's just the best mental image.

[DG]

Originally posted by rachie004
I'm surprised they allowed them to move to the row of free seats - they usually have rows free to keep the aircraft in trim

Huh??

I'd expect the airline to wanna fill every available seat

And I think once they're inthe air it don't may much differene althoug on take off they insisted some people went back tot he original seats and then could change in mid air

[DG]

Originally posted by rachie004
travel business class next time - you'll get 30 kg in weight

It was a charter flight, anyway my bag was only 14kg I had to carry it home on 2 trains so wanted to be light

[chaos_insomniac]

Originally posted by Kentish
roflol

That's just the best mental image.

It is isn't it

[Bri-namite]

Originally posted by rachie004

or was it over booked and they were both going to sit on you?

Originally posted by rachie004
i.e. the weight all needs to be balanced

One incredibly fat person on one side of the plane. and everybody else on the other

Man, how soul destroying would that be?

[Kaff]

Originally posted by DiamondGeezer
Should Persons of Size (big size) have to buy a 2nd seat on an airplane if they're HUGE!!

if they're taking up 2 seats, they should have to buy 2 seats.

simple as.

[DG]

Originally posted by kaffrin
if they're taking up 2 seats, they should have to buy 2 seats.

simple as.

it's no so much they take up 2 seats but they over hang on to the person next to them, who if they're not a personal friend aint nice!!

Although I've never figured out how they work out the width of those seats, I'm not big by any means but my shoulders are about 3 inches wider then the airline seats back rest so how do they expect peole to sit comfortably if they're of average size.

[Podgepig]

I reckon the airlines should have to make the seats bigger.

They're damned uncomfortable at the best of times, and even sitting next to other people of average / slim build is extremely confining and the cause of much mutual elbowing.

My biggest gripe would have to be the complete lack of leg room.
I'm about 6 foot 4 (not particularly tall these days, it seems when looking around). A couple of years ago I flew to Ayia Napa. After much Krypton-Factoresque manouevering I manage to wedge myself into the obligatory 7 inches of leg room and spent the next few hours in complete agony (not helped by the insufferable little turd in the seat in front of me with his repeated attempts at reclining the seat so that my knees were practically shoved out of my arse).

Admittedly, it is highly unlikely that airline companies will make any attempt to address this issue, as by creating more room for comfort they will be reducing the number of seats on the plane that they can charge for.

So looks like we'll be stuck with the "Battery Human" standards of travel for the foreseeable future.

Rant over.

[DG]

Actually have you ever noticed how thick the seats are on planes?

Like 4 inches thick or something!!

Surely they can make materials just as strong and supportive but thinner and thus allowing more leg room?

Same with those leg supports on the chairs, they take up loads of leg room

I don't find leg room as much of a pain as shoulder room, if you sit in the aisle then you can over hang that a bit until they come round with the trolly!!

[Podgepig]

Originally posted by DiamondGeezer

I don't find leg room as much of a pain as shoulder room, if you sit in the aisle then you can over hang that a bit until they come round with the trolly!!

On the sodding plane I was on, the aisle armrest didn't raise, so I had one thigh half wedged under there and was trying to hang over into the aisle a bit to get some more shoulder room (or room to swing my fist into the gloit in front of me . )