Ludicrous Airline Practice???

[Zakalwe]

Originally Posted by Abdullah71601

This is definately not a first world problem. It transcends all classes. Take the red eye out of the Phillipines or India and you’ll see the laborors suffering in the same system. Nobody likes it, but hating your customers has ascended to an art form at most airlines.

Well to address the point somewhat more seriously, I agree with a previous poster regarding where the line is drawn. I’m not fat, but I have definitely inconvenienced fellow passengers, probably more in one single trip than most fat people in their whole air-travelling lives. Forgive the indulgence...

I travelled with the missus and my (then) 6 month old daughter to Australia last year. 15 hours to Changi then another 8 to Brisbane, there and back. We booked bulkhead seats as we had no choice due to the baby. Each plane had a 3-4-3 config and we took up two of the middle seats on each leg with the baby in the bassinet. She was pretty stressed the whole way on all four legs and she even got the shits on the flight back and we had to change her 10 times.

I bet the people around us absolutely hated us for the noise and smell we created. That’s not even counting the baby. We could’ve bought out the whole row but there’d still be a bunch of people behind us pissed off. We could’ve paid a ridiculous 10x premium to sit in First but then all the miserable rich gits would’ve kicked off big style at the upstarts with a sprog ruining the ambience of their champagne aperitifs. Maybe I should’ve left the missus and baby at home so I could enjoy a holiday whilst my wife could spend three weeks alone as a relatively new mother? Perhaps I should’ve told my friend I couldn’t be best man at his wedding in case I upset random people on a plane?

What I actually did was rely on fellow human beings having a smidgen of tolerance and understanding.

Travelling in economy is riven with misery whether you have a chubster sitting next to you or not, because as you say, airlines don’t care about the welfare of their passengers.