Purchasing an extra ticket due to weight...

[lost*in*cyberspace]

I think people who wear strong perfumes and/or have "bo" should have to buy another seat too. They 'infringe' on my personal space and comfort -- and since I paid for my seat, if I'm not totally comfortable due to that (or any one of a hundred senarios) I should not be made to 'suffer' due to it.

I am assuming that you are being sarcastic, but sadly, I kind of agree. I hate being around people who pour on the scent or have too much "natural" odor.

Although one can wash off perfume or BO. You can't remove fat as easily.

 

[DisneyDotty]

Perhaps all airlines should have a mandatory feeding of 'Beano' to all passengers too...to everyone who is about to board so as to protect my reasonably expected use of my space.

Double dose for my DH, please.

 

[NotUrsula]

As for kids being split from their parents, the main reason this happens is due to overbooking by the airlines (which is legal, btw).

I have to disagree. Unless there is a connecting flight delay, the people who don't show up are most likely to have been business travelers who are on refundable coach fares. Those are NOT the people who are likely to have reserved middle seats.

I believe that the single-seats only phenomenon results primarily from schedule and equipment changes, and also from pricing systems which are keyed to yield mgmt software. When a flight time or type of aircraft is changed, even by so much as a few minutes, the seats will be reassigned by a computer, not a human being. That computer reassigns seats based on FF status and the fare class of your ticket; the higher both are, the better the seats the system will give you. Also, in the case of no-shows and last-minute cancellations, the best of those seats are almost always offered to the highest-status or highest-fare coach passengers as an upgrade, so the leisure traveller who is waiting for seats gets bumped down into any undesirable seats they upgrade out of.

For the past couple of years on most legacy carriers, the most heavily discounted leisure fares do not allow advance seat assignments at all. In my experience this appears to be because those fares are actually *priced* as middles-only, and the only way you will get into a window or aisle seat if you have one of those fares is by benefitting from a no-show situation.

Oh, and for the person who feels it it is wrong for young children not to be seated next to parents, my best advice is to write your Congressional Rep. to complain. FAA regs require the accompanying adult to be seated next to the child only if the child is in a carseat. If no carseat is being used, the only restriction on the seating of children is that they cannot sit in an exit row. Children may legally fly unaccompanied at age 5, and the legal definition of "accompanied" has been interpreted as "on the same aircraft." The only way that airlines are going to force passengers to move for this reason will be if the FAA regulations are changed to require them to do so.

PS: I should have mentioned that IME, the airline most likely to try hardest to coerce passengers to move to accomodate parents/children is SWA. They will ofter free drinks for trading quite often, and if the child is pre-school age, they may even threaten that the plane won't take off unless someone trades.

 

[Calliaz]

The second issue is people of size who KNOW of this rule and are quite aware of their size, and don't follow the rules. Either the airline (wrongly) doesn't call them on it, or the airline does ask the customer to purchase an extra seat and the customer raises holy heck about it.

While I mostly agree with you, I think that there is an added problem with the airline seats being of varying sizes. I'm larger (although much less than I used to be) and I can never tell if I'm going to need a seatbelt extender.

I've never paid for a second ticket because, when I was heavier, I only flew with my skinny DH. He was willing to take one for the team in order to save the money. However, I could never really tell if I need to buy one were I to brave flying alone. Sometimes I spilled over a little into his seat and other times I fit just fine.

They need sizing seats just like at WDW. Also, the determination of the gate agent on your first flight should apply to all of the legs of the flight. I've seen people get charged mid-trip and I think that is unfair.

 

[PaulaSB12]

Perhaps all airlines should have a mandatory feeding of 'Beano' to all passengers too...to everyone who is about to board so as to protect my reasonably expected use of my space.

Beano????????? Just curious what is that? In the Uk the only Beano we have is a comic!!!

 

[DVCconvert]

Beano????????? Just curious what is that? In the Uk the only Beano we have is a comic!!!

Here it's an over-the-counter remedy to help reduce/eliminate rectal discharges of a gaseous nature resulting from the body's work in transforming food into bodily waste.

 

[seashoreCM]

Due to cabin pressure characteristics, flatulence is more likely to be suffered while in flight. Not flying on an empty stomach helps. Whether a meal of Boston Baked Beans is better than no meal at all is open to debate.

Often when someone gets up the flatulence urge is lost. Therefore those in aisle seats either have to fold up their laptops and step into the aisle more often, or endure the consequences of their seatmates' flatulence.

"Wipe your behind first thing in the morning and each time after passing gas." So you need to stand in line for the rest room anyway. Do not PM me for an explanation (code 36) before having tried it.

More food for thought. If you paid $100 each way for your trip and some large person who scrunched in next to you paid $300 each way for his, how much should he pay for a second seat if, come flight time, the airline managed to get someone else who paid $200. one way to volunteer to get off and free up a different seat for you and the walk-up fare is $400. one way?

Beano????????? Just curious what is that? In the Uk the only Beano we have is a comic!!!

OT: In flight entertainment; games.
Beano: Bingo. I suppose the name came about because once someone used little kidney beans to cover the numbers. I often see the game called that at agricultural county fairs.

 

[goofy4tink]

Ah...people, can we try to be a bit more sensitive to others here?? Enough with the 'smells due to folds' comments. Let's try to remember that those who may have a weight issue do have feelings. They are fully aware that they are large. I have met plenty of 'oversize' people that have had no odor, as well as meeting skinny folks that I couldn't stand being next to for more than 5 minutes.
Please try to keep it couteous here.

 

[allboyz]

Ah...people, can we try to be a bit more sensitive to others here?? Enough with the 'smells due to folds' comments. Let's try to remember that those who may have a weight issue do have feelings. They are fully aware that they are large. I have met plenty of 'oversize' people that have had no odor, as well as meeting skinny folks that I couldn't stand being next to for more than 5 minutes.
Please try to keep it couteous here.

I agree! I can't believe the direction this thread is going!

 

[DVCconvert]

I agree! I can't believe the direction this thread is going!

Ah...people, can we try to be a bit more sensitive to others here?? Enough with the 'smells due to folds' comments. Let's try to remember that those who may have a weight issue do have feelings. They are fully aware that they are large. I have met plenty of 'oversize' people that have had no odor, as well as meeting skinny folks that I couldn't stand being next to for more than 5 minutes.

Well...that Would be the right and good thing to do.....but people like 'boater' and others seem to want to make this into a 'screw all who don't fit my set of expectations of being an acceptable person' type of thread!!!!

Anyone who's willing to post about 'smells' and 'folds' and the like....should be killed off...IMHO.....as they have a defective mind...in regards as to how to regards those who are "different" then themselves. Attitudes / opinions like that suggest that 'they' think themselves far better off as human beings then they really are.

 

[goofy4tink]

I think this thread has seen better days. It's done.