Thursday, April 16, 2009

Too Fat to Fly

Maybe the seats are too small. Don't tell United Airlines that. United flight attendants are keeping a watchful eye on large passengers.
If you can't buckle your seat belt or put your arm rest down, then you'll either have to buy the seat next to you or upgrade to a larger seat. If those options are not available, you may have to get a ticket on another flight.
Can you see the Advertisement for United... fly with skinny people. We won't squeeze you.
Are they just picking on large people or is this just a sign of the times?

4 comments:

  1. Well. They charge for excess weight luggage...

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  2. They mentioned on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (the NPR news quiz) that while very large people flying United who don't fit comfortably in one seat may be asked to buy one more seat, very large couples have the option of buying one seat and sharing it between them.

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  3. One *extra* seat that is. Even skinny couples would have difficulty fitting into the same one economy class seat.

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  4. So buy 3 seats for 2 large people as opposed to 4? That's very sweet. A couple sharing a seat.

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