But monsieur... you are ze fat boss-tard...

[Kingfish]

Such honesty - I love the French : )

http://blogs.usatoday.com/sky/2006/12/air_france_sued.html

[mad8]

i have no problem with this airline policy...
hell, the man probably wouldn't even fit in the cherokee...

Kingfish wrote:
> Such honesty - I love the French : )
>
> http://blogs.usatoday.com/sky/2006/12/air_france_sued.html

[John Theune]

mad8 wrote:
> i have no problem with this airline policy...
> hell, the man probably wouldn't even fit in the cherokee...
>
> Kingfish wrote:
>> Such honesty - I love the French : )
>>
>> http://blogs.usatoday.com/sky/2006/12/air_france_sued.html
>
This has been the policy at Southwest for quite some time.

[Matt Whiting]

mad8 wrote:

> i have no problem with this airline policy...
> hell, the man probably wouldn't even fit in the cherokee...
>
> Kingfish wrote:
>
>>Such honesty - I love the French : )
>>
>>http://blogs.usatoday.com/sky/2006/12/air_france_sued.html
>
>

Me neither having made a few flights beside people like this ... well
not quite 350 lbs, but anything over 250 is too much of they are less
than 6' tall.

I think airlines should charge by the pound for tickets. :-)


Matt

[john smith]

Jay Leno mentioned this in his monolog last night.
He mentioned that the two seats were right and left window seats.

Kingfish wrote:

>Such honesty - I love the French : )
>
>http://blogs.usatoday.com/sky/2006/12/air_france_sued.html
>
>
>

[Kev]

John Theune wrote:
> >> http://blogs.usatoday.com/sky/2006/12/air_france_sued.html
> >
> This has been the policy at Southwest for quite some time.

Yeah, hasn't this guy ever watched A&E's show "Airline", with Southwest
making people buy two seats all the time?

It also showed me that you'd better not be late to their gates, or come
drunk or noisy from a bar!!

Kev

[[email protected]]

> It also showed me that you'd better not be late to their gates, or come
> drunk or noisy from a bar!!
>
> Kev

With the exception of being drunk, thats why I fly private (I don't fly
when drunk, though), I get to make my own schedule and adjust it as I
go.

[Blanche]

> wrote:
>> It also showed me that you'd better not be late to their gates, or come
>> drunk or noisy from a bar!!
>>
>> Kev
>
>With the exception of being drunk, thats why I fly private (I don't fly
>when drunk, though), I get to make my own schedule and adjust it as I
>go.

And, you can carry 1) a weapon and 2) all the hair gel you want.

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, Blanche > said:
>And, you can carry 1) a weapon and 2) all the hair gel you want.

For those *really* bad hair days.


--
Paul Tomblin > http://blog.xcski.com/
Heaven has all the lusers, a generous supply of larts -
and no PHBs anywhere in sight.
-- The BOFH Heaven, according to Suresh

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, Matt Whiting > said:
>Me neither having made a few flights beside people like this ... well
>not quite 350 lbs, but anything over 250 is too much of they are less
>than 6' tall.

I used to fly US Air between Cleveland and Ottawa (with a change in
Pittsburgh) fairly regularly, and I swear it was US Air's policy to put
guys in the exit rows who were so fat they were panting from the effort of
walking half way down the length of the plane. If you're a Monty Python
fan, think "Mr. Creosote". I'd spent the whole flight wondering how you'd
tunnel through one of these lard mountains if you needed to get out that
exit door, because they sure as hell couldn't get through them even if
they survived the effort of opening the door.

--
Paul Tomblin > http://blog.xcski.com/
....I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply
suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an
interpreter. -- Nick Petreley

[Doug[_1_]]

The ones that suffer with this are the stewardesses who have to find
him a seat with an empty next to it and, if no empties, then the poor
person who has to sit next to him, who, paid for a whole seat but has
to share it with his overflow.

If they need two seats, they should pay for them.

[Sylvain]

B A R R Y wrote:

> Those people usually ask for exit rows, as the row ahead doesn't
> recline, so they tray table dosen't crush their fat.

but aren't the crew supposed to only place there people who are
sufficiently fit to open the door and/or help their fellow
passengers out?

everytime I have had been given one of these seat by checkin,
the crew always switched me to some place else (I use crutches,
but I am in a lot better shape than most passengers, and I
guarantee you that I won't be the last out in case of emergency);

the funny thing is indeed to see the same crew place there
morbidly obese or drunk passengers...

never understood the logic of it.

--Sylvain

[Sylvain]

Doug wrote:
> If they need two seats, they should pay for them.

you forget the extraordinary power of denial; they
do not need two seats, they are just 'big boned',
or it is their genes, or something, you are an
insensitive bad person :-)

--Sylvain

[Doug[_1_]]

There is a tape measure, there is a scale. If you are bigger than so
big, you buy two seats, or you don't go. No if and or buts about it.
Put it in writing and get the govt to approve it, whatever is necesary.
Just like any other requirment. If you want to use the seat, you have
to pay the money.