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It’s nothing to do with being overweight... it’s about whether your person impinges upon the seat real estate of the paying customer sitting next to you. If you
by spoonjim 5y ago
It’s nothing to do with being overweight... it’s about whether your person impinges upon the seat real estate of the paying customer sitting next to you. If you were as dense as a bowling ball but the size of Ruth Bader Ginsburg they would certainly need to burn more fuel for you but that’s not what the upcharge is for.
- soheil 5y agoYou create a fictional world to make your narrative fit. People generally have the same density. It's odd to assume some people could be as dense as a balloon and some as a bowling ball, all the while ignoring that weight is by and large the determining factor when it comes to impinging upon the seat real estate of those sitting next to you.
- bagacrap 5y agopeople most certainly don't have the same density. If your body fat is <10% you will not easily float in water, whereas if you're 30%+ you're basically an inner tube. However that is beside OP's point. Someone like Lebron James is not overweight but it's entirely possible he would need to buy two tickets.
- spoonjim 5y agoI’m not saying that the two aren’t closely correlated... I’m saying that the policy isn’t there to punish fat people, it’s to protect the experience of the other people on the plane. A person shouldn’t pay full price for a ticket and then lose some of their already minimal real estate to another passenger.