02-15-2010
01:05 PM
You do not regularly enforce this policy. That's the big trouble.
In October, on a direct flight from PHX to TPA, I had a large older man sitting in the middle who pulled up the armrest to fit. He was halfway in my seat the whole flight. I got no rest and was irritated the whole time.
I paid for my seat - my whole seat - not to share it with a larger passenger.
What determines if someone is going to be deemed too fat to fly? A pilot making a subjective decision?
This is one of those issues that you either always enforce or you end up on the wrong end of a PR disaster - like the guy who missed his uncle's funeral.
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