Feeling uncomfortable after sharing a seat with a very obese passenger

Siiiiiiiiigh…..

What if they can't afford one?

It's only from reading this thread that I see how cruel a lot of thin peoople are.

They see overweight people generally as disgusting with no thought put into how that person got to be that weight

I became overweight after a sexual assault.
I know a man who became overweihht after the death of his daughter.
My colleague is overweight because she has arthritis in her knee

Etc

How entitled that you think everyone's cost should go up to accommodate you.

They can sue but they won't necessarily win.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-14-me-65405-story.html

It's from 2000. I can't find a more recent case but would be interested if there is one.

What if they can't afford two tickets?

As I already wrote, I won't be paying more.

And that will never be implemented.

Companies will never be allowed to discriminate against people because of their weight.

At the moment, it is mainly the thin people suffering on airlines as they are getting squashed. If you are happy with the squashing then so be it.

I think they should give an option for larger chairs and suck up some cost to improve customer experience

idk why people are being disingenuous about seatbelts. Megabus/national coaches have seatbelts. That's public transport.

YANBU OP, it's infuriating. Especially in hot weather, reducing the airflow around your body and having someone else's body heat up against you, often sweaty and sticky. It's just awful all around.

People need to book two tickets if they need two spaces.

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No idea...I didn't mention BMI..

As I recall it from industry publications passenger seat sizing was decreed by the likes Boeing/Airbus, usually based on fitting the (?) 95 percentile so you'll have to take sizing up with them.

Funny though how thirty is years ago almost everyone was a fan of airline deregulation in Europe,.now the race to the bottom is biting people in the backside you hear lots of voices wanting regulation brought back in.

Ultimately bigger than standard economy seats are available with many carriers on many routes...but not so much in Shorthaul and people have to be prepared to pay for them.

If they offer the option of purchasing a second seat, that's the standard met. It's totally impractical to make every seat large enough to fit the biggest possible passenger. It really is not the same as buying a new chair for your single security guy.

How much more are you prepared to pay for your flights? Bear in mind the industry is hammered at the moment with fuel price hikes.

This is incorrect. They are basically the same and spelling comes down to regional preference.

If you can't see that people are different to luggage, I don't know eaht to say.

For example if a person has an illness/injury that makes them prone to gain weight.

And an airline makes that person pay more.

That person can easily sue the airline for discrimination

In your scenario. You are describing thin people as the "normal" Weight and anyone of a larger size as an abnormal weight. When people are actually all shapes and sizes

In your scenario, at what BMI should be people be forced to pay more?

Are you thin or medium or large weight?

From listening to thin people on this thread, aeroplanes, buses and trains were definitely designed by thin people!

There is a complete lack of understanding of what larger bodied people need

Lots of H&S doesn't apply in the aviation world for often good reason.

As for forcing the airlines to provide bigger seats - if you can also force people to pay the increased fares (which would be needed) , and if you can force all foreign operators serving the UK to comply with UK rules then I guess it's an option worth considering..........

It is comparable. Every organisation has to meet basic health and safety standards.

I don't know how airplanes are getting away with what they are doing.

Overweight people can't fit safely into a seat. Thin people can't fit safely into their seat as they are squashed in.

This is in a moving vehicle high in the air, wheresafety is very important.

But that's one person in one situation in one place. It's not comparable to reconfiguring every plane for every flight in the world.

What are you on about.

My work place recently hired a new security guard. He is a very large man. Very tall and also overweight. He didn't fit into our desk chair. We are not going to have him standing all day are we.

My work place ordered an extra large chair for him to sit on.

Good for you but these drugs are not a silver bullet (sorry, that genuinely isn't meant to sound nasty)
Some people aren't suitable and we certainly don't know the long term effects.

What do you want the airline to be responsible for exactly?

Personally I think the solution is to have a very easy to use system whereby a person who requires two seats can very easily purchase them and have them actually next to each other (there have been cases where people do buy two seats but they're in different rows or across the aisle from each other, which obviously is useless). Then if the plane isn't full, they should be refunded for one. This is what a lot of domestic American airlines do and I think it makes sense.

I guess airlines could reconfigure all their seats and sizing but seats would have to be really impractically large to make sure nobody would ever require a second one and that would mean many fewer tickets available, and all of them more expensive. There needs to be a solution for when someone requires a second seat.

I don't want plus size people to be shamed or treated poorly, and I also think people should be able to use the space they've paid for so they aren't cramped up uncomfortably for goodness knows how long, potentially hurting themselves.

Anyone who just doesn't like the sight of a fat person can practise the ancient art of looking at something else.

I honestly don’t know what you’re taking about, task seating is mostly a standard size and workplaces will order 100 of the same chair or whatever their staff numbers are, bus seats are all the same size, train seats are the same size, seats in the theatre or concert venue are all the same size.

Like every drug out there, people have different reactions and side effects to drugs.

I had to stop taking mounjaro as it gave me constantly severe nausea and diarrhea to the point that I was missing work