Should obese people have to pay for an extra airline seat?

Yes... they should have to pay for an extra seat if they are fat enough to require two seats to sit down. NOW...before all you heavyweights out there jump all over me for being insensitive, my sister has had to travel on airlines on more than one occasion when her children were infants. When she asked the airlines about using her car seat for her baby on the plane, she was told (ON EACH OCCASION) that she would have to pay full price for another seat, because the car seat would be taking up a seat on the plane that a paying customer could be paying to use. SO...using this same logic...if your butt is wide enough to take up more than one seat on the plane, you should have to pay for both seats. Fair is fair...

I have mixed feelings about this. It's not fair to people who can't help how much they weigh, but it's also not fair to the plane for having to lift extra weight. :/

if you need to use two seats it seems only fair that you should pay for two seats. if you use something why should you not pay for it?

Well I can talk for obese people since im one of them. And its funny because I heard this on the news a few weeks ago and I dont think they should pay extra for plane tickets. Its just not fair but the only time they should pay extra money is if they need an extra seat. So they should buy 2 seats if they cant fit into one. If it was me I would just fly first class.

Are you asking about an obese person or a disabled person? An obese person is not necessarily disabled, and a disabled person many not be obese. Now if the obese person is disabled I think the Airline should go out of their way to help this unfortunate. But if the disabled person is obese this is not the Airlines fault so why should the Airline pay for the extra seat?

YES! Having another person spill over into your "personal space" is not only annoying but terribly uncomfortable for them and you! I also think they should pay more for insurance as they have more health problems than the others such as myself that try to take care, eat right, etc. Sure, I like McDonalds too sometimes! Can't beat the french fries! But, I know an over weight guy that eats there EVERY DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My father has been very ill recently and I have spent an incredible amount of time in hospitals this past year. Do you know they had to manufacture wheelchairs in larger sizes now due to obese people? Who do you think has to carry the burden of that cost. Not the manufacturers.......no sir ree! It's us! My poor little father could have fallen out of that big chair they put him in! The old wheelchairs have had the same size design for probably 100 years! We have become a nation of fat and lazy people! I also think smokers should pay more for health insurance as well. Why should my premiums be high just because someone chooses to smoke and kill themselves slowly.

I am overweight yes but definitely not in the obese category. I do feel that if someone takes up two seats they should pay for 2 seats, if they take up three, they should pay for three, etc. If you are disabled and need a carer to travel with you, I feel the carer should also have to pay the travel fare too. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh and it's not like I have any sympathy for airlines particularly but if you could consider we get charged extra money if our luggage is more than a couple of kilos overweight so why should an obese person taking up a full extra seat not get charged for that too? Someone else might have been on standby for that seat and needed to get somewhere urgently but the seat would be given free of charge (if someone countries' laws had their way) to the obese or disabled person. There are just so many concessions given to people because of their colour, religion or disability these days that it drives me mad that it's now spilling onto airlines too! I'm not racist, I don't care enough about religion to be bothered about other people's religions and I respect disabled people but not when it costs me more money, cos at the end of the day you can bet anything that when airlines are forced to give "free" seats away they'll be hiking up prices in other areas so the rest of us mugs will end up paying for it somehow!

That depends. If the person is so big that he/she can't fit in one seat then I think he/she should buy two tickets. But no one should be forced to pay extra charge just because they "look fat or obese". If I was seated next to an obese person, I don't think I would complain because I really feel sorry for them. They have more than enough health problems already. But if I can't breathe anymore, hey that's a different story!

Personally, I think it's discrimination. Not all overweight people can help it, there are diseases such as hypothyroidism and polycystic ovarian disease which cause weight gain, and there are also medications that cause weight gain like prednisone.

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