This way to airport weigh-in
Pago Pago airport has apparently stopped pre-booking seats and started weighing passengers they think are overweight.Way to start your holiday? Hey, you, fattie? On the scales please. Okay, we have to change your seat or you'll tip the plane sideways ...
Tactful!
Why not instead allow some wider seats in the middle of the plane, and make stating weight (including cabin luggage) part of the on-line checking-in process, then you can offer the seats available to those with unusual needs.
If you were huge, you wouldn't mind that, much better than being wedged and squeezed into the average tiny space? Hell, the international SPCA wouldn't allow animals to travel in the allocated space we get crammed into for hours. A bigger seat would be bliss for a bigger person.
(Any time the airlines want to allow for passengers over 5 foot tall, and offer more leg room, would also be seriously ace.
) Right now, that's only targeting larger passengers and we've all had that moment when you see someone who can barely squeeze down the aisle towards where you are sitting and you start the traveller's prayer, please not next to me please not next to me oh bugger!
But airlines, sure you have to adjust the trim of the plane, sure if you get a team of rugby players you want to spread them around the plane. But fair's fair. Offer slightly roomier seats to plus-size passengers, don't just ruin their holiday before it started?
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Can't use the wheeled ones because the axles would break or the wheels would leave tracks in the floor ...
sausage casing.
People with weight issues feel bad enough already in our societies being constantly confronted with picture perfect thin people as ideal in advertising etc. in their every day lives.
Then giving them the feeling of being a burden during a flight is hurtful to these people who just want to use a plane like everybody else.
People with overweight are not to be reduced to their weight. This does not reflect their true value. They are souls and can be very precious.
Best part I could kick out the whole flight and no whining passenger in front of me to complain to the cabin crew
If there's a potential situation solve it proactively, sort it out long before the arrival at the airport
to the sweat hog passengers.
PASS.
anyway.
whiny kids who kick the back of your seat
Babies with shrieks like train whistles
oversize or physically immobilised passengers between you and the aisle - I like a window seat, so I can sleep, but as a claustrophobic dread not being able to get to the aisle
lanky passengers who take up the whole armrest AND dig their elbows into you
those who brought their own strong-smelling food and eat it from beginning to end of flight
relentless talkers. (Where are you going? Erm - well, the plane is going to London. Where are YOU going?)
maybe I should re-write this blog
and the sooner the better, say I
so what do those special seats put you back?
I've MET the future pres, ooh!
the number of spoiled papers for the US election should go up dramatically but it isn't only there, point me at any country utterly delighted with their leader(s)?
Okay Kim Jong-un doesn't count for legal reasons
There is one US airline that planned standing passengers only, I think South Western on very short routes, perhaps our American friends could offer more about it.
Standing for an hour's flight? I've done that just commuting, and oh my what fun it is. But if it was half the price, I'm listening
mmm no what you mean, I have not flown for years now I get a coach, but the seats are smaller still
I think you'll have to choose.
1) private billions
2) control of a country
3) adoration of the faithful
and no not all of the above, lol
Check out the facilities -
Z should take note that Tuesdays Euromillions is mine, I shall buy my town out, wall it off and declare UDI, Only nice people will be invited to live here totally free as long as they pay homage to my various statues 3 times a day, I just read that, think Im still asleep as my coffee is cold, sleep blogging?