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AIBU?

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To dread flying because of my size?

457 replies

annauk1 · 12/02/2014 19:57

I am going on holiday in a few days. I should be really happy but the flight is really making me not want to go.

I flew last year and needed a belt extension which was fine, wasn't much of a problem, but the thing that petrifies me most is that DP and I won't be able to sit together and if I end up sitting next to a nasty person who is ' a fat-phobe' and huffs and puffs at me the whole 3 hours for taking up more than my (tiny) seat space. I am flying with Monarch who are notorius for their tiny seats. I am a size 26 btw.

OP posts:

ViviPru · 13/02/2014 11:49

God only knows what I thought!

Oh do come back OP... I'm losing the will here.

MarvellousMechanicalMouseOrgan · 13/02/2014 11:50

Is it even possible to book two seats in the same name online?

somersethouse · 13/02/2014 11:51

Yes hully will all be in the Fail tomorrow/next week about Monarch flights and seat sizes.

What a load of crap.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 13/02/2014 11:52

Minifingers... That's easy to say on a chatboard, isn't it? Let me ask you then, would you be as happy to have your child's space encroached as you're so accommodating?

This problem has solutions, several of them. OP isn't being persecuted in anyway for anything. Airline seats are notoriously small, most of us know that. Taller people need to book appropriate seats, why not anybody else who needs one?

donnie · 13/02/2014 11:53

where is the OP?

I do think the thread has become a bit of a bunfight, but then again the OP was deliberately provocative when she described people who don't like being squashed and squeezed by morbidly obese people as 'nasty fat-phobes'.

OP you say you did the same thing last year so you ought to know what you are letting yourself in for. You should have booked two seats for yourself - as it is some poor bugger will end up with only half a seat because of you, and you are blaming them?

Ubik1 · 13/02/2014 11:54

I really hate all the lardy middle aged people who stuff their faces with the disgusting 'breakfast' and then stand in the aisle farting while waiting for the toilet.

God I hate flying. It's a fucking siege from start to finish.

ViviPru · 13/02/2014 11:54

will all be in the Fail tomorrow/next week about Monarch flights and seat sizes.

And they'll weave in the Mumsnetters in atrocious approval-of-racist-sexist-Blighton angle too

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 13/02/2014 11:57

That's your choice, Pisci, other people don't have to accommodate it. I work when I'm on flights, catching up on paperwork, etc. I need my own space and other people are not entitled to it.

I'd help anybody who needed it - if I could. I wouldn't be so gracious if it was expected without as much as a by your leave. If you need something from somebody else, have the manners to acknowledge it at least.

It's so easy to call people 'rude' when you don't agree with their views. It doesn't make them so however loudly or fervently it's proclaimed.

Beeyump · 13/02/2014 11:57

Ubik1 couldn't agree more, and yet, and yet...I always get the overwhelming urge to fart when flying . Perhaps it's something to do with air pressure, as i'm neither lardy nor middle aged?

Monka · 13/02/2014 11:57

I know for the larger airlines there are websites that have the seat map of the airplane laid out so you can book the best seats. Exit row seats (pay extra for them) often have the best legroom but you have to be prepared to help out in an emergency (i.e open the door) but the OP's partner could do that.

My relative works for an airline so there is very little money made from economy seats which is why the pitch is so uncomfortable. There are whole departments that look at maximising revenue because airlines are run as businesses. UK airlines don't get subsidies from the UK Govt but have to compete against European airlines that receive huge handouts from their govt and US airlines who can go into chapter 11 and restructure their business (while screwing over their employees).

The UK Govt charges an excessive amount of tax per passenger (APD) which if they reduced it would mean the price if your ticket is lower and makes buying two seats more affordable. (I have a bugbear about this).

Depending on an airline's size of fleet the cost of purchasing and retro fitting the fleet with new seats runs into the millions. Again with the level of profit made for economy seats or for the budget carriers this wouldn't happen.

I have been lucky enough to travel the world cheaply when I was younger and was very fortunate to have the ability to sleep through most of the flight.

Posted this in response to other posters who mentioned seat pitch size etc.

Fleta · 13/02/2014 11:58

And Bill with the seven brothers all as horse mad as each other

St Clares was good but I used to despair of Alison and her unsuitable crushes. I remember when she overhear the English teacher - I can't remember her name but she told the girls the D stood for Deirdre - talking about her. She was "too shocked even to cry".

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 13/02/2014 11:58

VivPru... Now that would be worth reading, perhaps the only thing.

Beeyump · 13/02/2014 12:00

I loved Potty.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 13/02/2014 12:02

Fleta... oh yes, Bill and that teacher (Miss John's) who Bill didn't like and then when her beloved 'Thunder' had colic, she helped Bill walk him all through the night to recover...

I loved, loved, loved the two Ma'mzelles (god knows how you write that?)... so competitive together.

Alison... a drip that I loved reading about, so ridiculous she made you want to cringe with her crushes. Just as well there were no men on the premises...

ViviPru · 13/02/2014 12:03

That's as maybe, Beeyump, but who was your favourite Mallory Towers character?

mrsjay · 13/02/2014 12:12

I dont want anybody in my space on a plane fat thin or whatever keep to your own side ,

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 13/02/2014 12:14

We have a poster here called GwendolineMaryLacey, I'm sure we do?

I quite liked the GML character; she made mistakes all the time but she was decent underneath.

What I loved about both series was that nobody was ever outcast even though their behaviour was 'sat on'. Everybody belonged...

Ubik1 · 13/02/2014 12:18

I want my own private jet

like Beyonce

Beeyump · 13/02/2014 12:19

Vivi, you card

ViviPru · 13/02/2014 12:19

Aaai thankyow

LessMissAbs · 13/02/2014 12:24

I wonder what the non-returning OP thoughts would be if someone a similar size to herself (or bigger) had no choice other than to sit next to her...

mrsjay · 13/02/2014 12:25

We have a poster here called GwendolineMaryLacey, I'm sure we do?

yes we do

Beeyump · 13/02/2014 12:27

Hmm, I though Gwendoline was a bit of an outcast? I don't remember her being treated all that well. But then, she could be a pain too...

Fleta · 13/02/2014 12:28

I'm shamefacedly going to admit that from about 9 for a good number of years I brushed my hair 100 times a night...

mrsjay · 13/02/2014 12:30

oh i brushed my hair 100 times a night and i have not read Mallory towers must have been a thing when i was younger

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