...to ask how you decide if someone is 'fat' ?

[MaisyMooCow]

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So the 'fat' passenger paying more argument continues.

My question is, how do you decide when someone qualifies for the 'fat seats'. What happens if you book a normal seat, get to check-in and they say 'Sorry madam but you're fat' . Are you expected to get on their scales for a weigh in?!!

If the seat sizes and weight restrictions are publicly available (doubt they are) you can still be challenged at the check-in - I've seen it done.

You might be confident you can fit into a seat but if the airline suspect you can't then they will pull you up.

I'm afraid I don't buy that there are non-overweight men who are so big they can't fit between the armrests. There are plenty however, who have shoulders wide enough that they overlap the seats, and there's bugger all they can do about it (except perhaps not spend quite as much time in the gym.)

If anyone can be bothered, Kevin Smith talks very eloquently about what happened to him, and another person on his flight, when he was told he was "too fat to fly". He is very rich so now doesn't fly and takes a tour bus everywhere but the young woman who was humiliated on the same flight, doesn't have that option. He feels she was singled out to prove to him that they do it to everyone.