02-16-2010
06:01 AM
"If he doesn't need a seatbelt extender and the armrests can do down, he is clearly fine under the terms of your policy,"
Looking at his recent photos, including the photos from MacWorld a week or so back, he looks like he's too big to fit into a coach seat. You need to take into account that arms of fat people don't hang the same way the arms of thinner people do: They stick out at a 30 degree angle from vertical.
"Arm rests" in airplanes are not meant to be take literally. You're not supposed to actually rest your arms on them the whole trip. In many planes they contain the entertainment system controls. But fat people do in fact use them as arm rests--on both sides.
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