My thinking on this issue is - if you take up 2 seats you should pay for them. HOWEVER, if you want to put your seat back and use the space behind you - you should have to pay for the seat behind you. If your shoulders extend over into the seat area next to you - you should have to pay for that seat. And (this may get me really yelled at), if you are flying with an infant/toddler - you have to pay for the second seat. I'm sorry holding a child in your lap is not safe for the child or yourself in the case of an emergency. Nor is it comfortable to sit next to someone who has another person in their lap. After all, the airlines are supposedly doing this for our comfort and SAFETY. The airline should provide infant seats - like car seats.
AND if the airlines are going to charge fat folk for the extra seat, they need to be non-discriminatory about it. They need to adhere to their own rules, and allow the person to prove that they can (or cannot) fit into one seat.
AND if (as Southwest claims) it isn't about the money. Southwest should allow 2 fat people to purchase the 3rd seat between them to share. Southwest claims they can't guaranty 3 seats together (because they don't do assigned seating), however, Southwest lets the fat folks pre-board so they can be guaranteed the 2nd seat. So Southwest's explanation doesn't wash.
Fair is fair.
Tante Terri
How can you say fat people have no self-discipline? We haven't killed you yet!
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