No they shouldn't. Is just a scheme the Airlane industry has been using to charge ppl extra for ticket. I don't agree with it and to an extreme is discrimination agains't obese people. Make bigger seats is as simple as that. If they continue with these schemes who know what will they do next? Maybe charge a pregnant woman double since she is carrying a baby? Nah! I never agree with corporations and their so called "policies".
Originally posted by WindDancer
No they shouldn't. Is just a scheme the Airlane industry has been using to charge ppl extra for ticket. I don't agree with it and to an extreme is discrimination agains't obese people. Make bigger seats is as simple as that. If they continue with these schemes who know what will they do next? Maybe charge a pregnant woman double since she is carrying a baby? Nah! I never agree with corporations and their so called "policies".
i agree 🙂
There's this woman who's the vet assistant and her job is to hold down big dogs. She's door shaped(skinny on the side and fricking FAT when faceing foreward) She weighs about 300 but its obviousely unevenly distributed. There are people who weigh more and don't take up two seats. It wouldn't be fair to her😬
Originally posted by WindDancer
No they shouldn't. Is just a scheme the Airlane industry has been using to charge ppl extra for ticket. I don't agree with it and to an extreme is discrimination agains't obese people. Make bigger seats is as simple as that. If they continue with these schemes who know what will they do next? Maybe charge a pregnant woman double since she is carrying a baby? Nah! I never agree with corporations and their so called "policies".
it's not discrimination against obese people, it's economics, you need two seats, you pay for two seats... that or lose some weight, either by working out or by an operation.
Originally posted by yerssot
yeah right!
if you want to have bigger seats, then there can be less people on the plane in the first place, ergo, to keep the profit up from before they changed it they have to ask MORE, then you can keep it as it is and those that due to overweight need two chairs, pay for twoit's not discrimination against obese people, it's economics, you need two seats, you pay for two seats... that or lose some weight, either by working out or by an operation.
So it's about economics, huh? We are talking about large corporations with billions and billions of dollars which could be enough to remodel the interior of the planes. I mean if airlines like Delta and American Airlines can make billions of dollars a year from flights and stocks then they should have enough money to change those small seats and replace them with wider seats. I mean poor corporations we must always give the benefit of the doubt....right?
Also, in order to pay for a regular seat in a plane an obese person must now get on a diet or get surgery in order to travel? That is their personal problem and I don't see why Airlines should take advantage of their obese condition. Gee! Those Airlines corps. are so fair to everyone! why don't they charge midgets kid's prices? They are small as child so why do they pay full price? I mean if fatties should pay for the price of two.....then midgets should pay the price of a kid.
People are born midgets...noone is born 300 pounds overweight.
Yes, people who take up two seats should be charged for 2 seats. That's how the company KEEPS it's billions of dollars. If the airlines were to give price cuts to every ****ing passenger, then they wouldn't have any money. The whole point is to make quota, or make profit. If you take up two seats on a plane, then you pay for two seats.
Windancer is right. It does not matter a tiny toss if it is more economical to make them pay double. It is more economical to not build disabled access ramps, but you should anyway. And it does not matter if the obese person is so through his/her own fault or not- they have a right to be if they want; the disadvantage comes through the unhealthiness- it should NEVER come through impositions form other Humans.
You don't pay for the literal seat. You pay for the right of passage. It is absolutely the job of the airline to provide you the means FOR that passage, and to make someone pay more due to personal circumstance is pure discrimination and wrong.
Originally posted by WindDancer
So it's about economics, huh? We are talking about large corporations with billions and billions of dollars which could be enough to remodel the interior of the planes. I mean if airlines like Delta and American Airlines can make billions of dollars a year from flights and stocks then they should have enough money to change those small seats and replace them with wider seats. I mean poor corporations we must always give the benefit of the doubt....right?Also, in order to pay for a regular seat in a plane an obese person must now get on a diet or get surgery in order to travel? That is their personal problem and I don't see why Airlines should take advantage of their obese condition. Gee! Those Airlines corps. are so fair to everyone! why don't they charge midgets kid's prices? They are small as child so why do they pay full price? I mean if fatties should pay for the price of two.....then midgets should pay the price of a kid.
no, I must have expressed myself wrong there. An obese person can travel as far and as much as he wants. but if he needs two seats he simply pays two seats OR if he doesn't want that, he should lose weight so he can sit in one.
No he shouldn't. Sorry, economics at the price of discrimination is wrong, and market regulation exists to eliminate it. It is also fatuous to imagine that making such concessions will significantly damage their profit margin.
The only obligation on the overweight person, as noted above, is to let the company KNOW so they can have the appropriate measures ready.
I think people who are fat just because they eat too much and don't exercise any should have to pay for the amout of seats they take up and tell the airline in advance so that some oen doesnt have to wait for the next flight.
But, I think that people who have a health problem where being fat isnt someting they can help, I think they should tell the airline before hand, and bring a doctors notice to the gate, but not be charged extra.
Naz, from what I understand of the first post is that if he simply told the aircompany he was obese and that he probably couldn't fit in one, they would have given him either two chairs or one big one and only charge him for one... but he didn't...
so, if that happens (that you don't warn the company so they can take precautions) than why NOT pay for 2 seats if you take 2 with your figure? they lose a paying costumer on that flight thanks to him