The only fair and equitable way to deal with obese passengers is to require them to purchase two seats – the second one perhaps at half price.
[Bar obese passengers from flying? TIJ, September 11, 2009]
Air France has become the first airline to take up this suggestion for dealing with obese passengers. The airline explained its new policy in a press release yesterday, which read, in part, as follows:
People who arrive at the check-in desk and are deemed too large to fit into a single seat will be asked to pay for and use a second seat. They will be charged 75 per cent of the cost of the second seat.
(Monique Matze, an Air France spokesman)
I have no doubt that other airlines will soon follow suit.
But when contacted yesterday, British Airways informed reporters that they will only advise fat passengers to buy a second seat “for their own comfort and safety.”
This, of course, is typical of the patronizing, condescending and plainly disingenuous way the British deal with people. After all, everybody knows that the only reason to offer such advice to obese passengers is to ensure the safety and comfort of the passengers who might get smothered sitting next to them.
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