Plus-size influencer demands FAA and airlines give fat flyers as many FREE seats as they need to spread themselves out - and admits other passengers may have to foot the bill

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[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

If your ass is too fat to fit on a single seat then you should find another way to travel.

I have no problem with them having two seats, as long as they pay for two fucking seats

[–]HiddenFox 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

I can see this going something like this.

  • We need to make the seats larger to fit obese people.

  • We can sell it as "We are now giving everyone more room and comfort when you fly with us!"

  • We now have less seats be flight so the price must rise.

Everyone will end up paying more and not even know why.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

You ever see pictures of airline travel from about the late 1940s up to about the mid to late '60s? Fucking insane amounts of room for each passenger, none of that flying cattle car bullshit.

[–]ShekelPa 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You sure that was represented of an actual flight? It is very easy to post such an image and misconstrue it as a "normal" circumstance.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, most of the pictures of that sort that I've seen were from period issues of National Geographic and Popular Mechanics. So even allowing for advertising manipulation, they're probably close to the truth.

[–]HiddenFox 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I also saw a price comparison of flight prices adjusted for inflation from back in the golden age of flying. Today, a flight from Toronto to Vancouver for somewhere in the $500 - $750 range and would be $2000+ back in the day, comparable to a first class ticket of today in both price and luxury.

My thought here is that $500 - $750 ticket will now be over a $1000 because they have to remove a seat from each row to make more space between the seats.

IMO this actually wouldn't be a bad thing. Airlines have been in a race to the bottom to offer the lowest priced tickets possible. This has lead to horrific conditions when flying. Every method possible to save a buck has been implemented making flying by far the worst part of any trip/vacation. Even today my wife was talking about booking another trip to Vegas only to be turned off by the offerings of the 2 flight carriers we have here in Canada.

In the end this might not be such a bad thing. We will pay more but get a better experience. As someone who has been on long haul flights sitting next to a fat person more space is worth it IMO.

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

honestly we're paying 90s ticket rates, we'd be happy with 90s service instead of sitting next to Tuberculosis Todd for 5 hours, or someone literally in your chair

also people who do trust falls with the recliner

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

or someone literally in your chair

I never get the reasoning behind this shit. You buy a seat, you sit in that seat. Not somewhere else, in that seat. And there's always that sense that people doing that would be absolutely raging if someone did them like that, yet they'll still do it to others?

[–]OuroborosTheory 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

like someone above said, it's like eating someone else's food at a restaurant

problem is, to someone like the "fativist" it'd never occur to them to not literally walk up to someone else's table and start digging into their dinner--only extrinsic threat of expulsion stops someone like that: the asshole snapping his gum in your ear, coughing up asphalt next to you, breaking your laptop, or letting their baby scream for hours because they forgot the pacifier and now the kid's falling off their lap without them noticing because they're glued to the screen--they don't CARE, and it'd never occur to them in the first place to "just be a decent person"

that's why all these clicktivists look the same--female (if you notice, there's no fativists for men or demands that people who look like Bill Dauterive are owed sex), college grad, "not afraid to speak up against attempts to silence me," Problem Glasses and silly hair that make them look like Roz from Monsters, Inc.: it's a shared personality regardless of the specific content of what they're pushing

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

there's no fativists for men or demands that people who look like Bill Dauterive are owed sex

Well, there might be, but I'm pretty sure they'd be smeared as dirty incels for opening their airholes and daring to speak up.

[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

iirc they'll waive the second seat's fee if the flight's not overbooked