Southwest Has New Policy for the 'Super
Fat' Passenger
Hot Air,
by
David Strom
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
12/15/2023 10:41:30 AM
I am not sure how to feel about this one.
On the one hand, the decision that Southwest Airlines made to give free 2nd or even 3rd seats to “Super Fat” passengers is good for those people and great for the unlucky middle seaters who would have been squeezed by a neighbor whose body encroached into their personal space.
On the other hand, everybody who flies Southwest will be picking up the tab for the otherwise empty seat Southwest couldn’t fill because a passenger with an exceptional appetite decided to fly on their aircraft. (X) After Southwest’s decision has come in the wake of a social media campaign by influencers
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
john56 12/15/2023 10:45:58 AM (No. 1617792)
I'm moderately fat. Do i get two seats for the price of one?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 12/15/2023 10:54:42 AM (No. 1617797)
I self identify as a super fat piggie! Extra sets for me! Yay!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 12/15/2023 10:55:23 AM (No. 1617799)
Very bad idea. If you USE two seats, you need to PAY for two seats, rather than all the rest of us pay for your extra fat butt!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
texaspast 12/15/2023 10:56:04 AM (No. 1617801)
The Babylon Bee's 'Headline' on this topic: 'Southwest Airlines To Provide Plus-Size Customers With Bed Of Hay, Feeding Trough'.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Msquared112 12/15/2023 11:31:34 AM (No. 1617832)
Obesity in America is epidemic and should not be treated as a joke. It’s deadly. Fat people are fat because they lack will power or because they have a serious metabolic problem. Overeating is no excuse for obesity and if I were a flyer, I’d be deeply resentful having my air fair increased because someone else couldn’t control themselves. If you’re fat, get help, but don’t ask me to pay increased prices for my medical insurance or air fare.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
dwa 12/15/2023 11:33:17 AM (No. 1617833)
A passenger who would require three seats should not be allowed to fly. In an emergency, they would not be able to fit through the emergency exit thus not only causing harm to themselves but also possibly to other passengers. Someone who would actually take up two seats may be unable to fit through the emergency exits.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Laotzu 12/15/2023 11:33:43 AM (No. 1617834)
I'm a slim 160 as a male. Do I get a discount?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jc96 12/15/2023 11:36:44 AM (No. 1617838)
dunno, I'm thinking Loony Tunes and a whole bunch of critters pushing the Xtra Lg passenger out the door in the event of an emergency evacuation... Might just be me tho. Ciao, Chris
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
privateer 12/15/2023 11:47:57 AM (No. 1617847)
Big aviation news! The Age Of Dirigibles is back! If they can charge $25 for a bag that goes in the hold---where there is no doubt ample room, they just charge because they can---then why can't they charge by weight or size in the passenger compartment?
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To be assured of two or three seats together, they will get early boarding privileges as well.
I can see it now...."I'm sorry mam you are not fat enough." "Yes, I am - are you calling me a liar?" "Well hop on this scale for me then."
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 12/15/2023 11:51:29 AM (No. 1617849)
jc96 beat me to it - but you can also use a fatty to your benefit should an inflight emergency occur and a crash landing is inevitable. Just before impact throw yourself into the fatty and hold on tight - all that mass may cushion the blow like a massive airbag and might just save YOUR skin and help you survive the crash
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 12/15/2023 12:00:04 PM (No. 1617853)
Re #5...."deeply resentful" about PAYING FOR what you use? But, of course, not resentful enough to lose a couple of hundred pounds, right? Sorry. Fat people CHOOSE to be fat, and choosing NOT to change your eating habits is a choice to be fat. Denying that it's a choice is just denial, not reality.
My wife and I marveled at a couple of 350+ lb folks, perhaps married, at a sandwich shop. Each ordered a giant 12" sandwich, with layers of three or four kinds of meat and then piled to to rooftop with all the extras, and slathered in "extra mayo, please".
Then EACH ordered a bag of a dozen cookies. All this was "to go". I looked up those cookies later and they run a bit over 300 calories each, so on top of a probably 1300+ calorie giant sub sandwich, they each got about 3600-4000 extra calories of cookies for their desert. Compare this to the normal 2,000 calorie per day diet which is normal. Sometimes my wife and I share one or two of those cookies as a treat, maybe every 5th or so time we visit.
Granted, restaurant portion sizes are a problem.
My wife and I regularly eat half our food at restaurants because the standard portions these days are pretty ridiculous in all too often. We get a dinner and a nice lunch the next day out of it.
Pay for the expensive airline seat area you use.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
janjan 12/15/2023 12:14:25 PM (No. 1617857)
We needed a new victim class. There are never enough.
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Headline should read: “Southwest passengers to bear cost of morbidly obese flyers”
I’m not remotely fat. About 11% body fat. But I am 6’11” tall and fluctuate around 300lbs. I’ve been a power lifter my entire life — except for when I played on the offense line. Shaq has a couple of inches on me and about 40lbs.
Do I get a free extra seat?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 12/15/2023 12:56:29 PM (No. 1617890)
Re #14, my simpathies, I cannot imagine how you fit into any airline seat except business or first class. I'm almost a foot and half shorter than you, and just over half your weight, and regular seats are none too generous for my small size. And for your height, 300 lbs isn't fat.
If they give two seats to the obese, why not two seats to anyone over 6' 6"? You can't argue that someone chose to be "too tall" and could "lose a few inches". IMO, it's a better argument than for the obese.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Hazymac 12/15/2023 1:04:53 PM (No. 1617895)
Re #14: What a great point--what if a passenger is just very tall? That could be a problem, too. You're just a big fellow, a big unit. 6'11" makes you as tall as Bill Russell, although Robert Pershing Wadlow was two feet taller (8'11.09"). We ordinary sized guys are a full head shorter. Out of curiosity, what's your inseam?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 12/15/2023 1:09:26 PM (No. 1617903)
What if I were to wear shades, a big gold necklace w obnoxiously large pendant, a floppy fuzzy bucket hat and have a boom box as my carry on? I could then fly for free cause I identify as SUPA PHAT.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/15/2023 1:12:47 PM (No. 1617904)
Once you go down that route, there is no stopping. What about constipated people whose flatulence burns your nose hair all the way to LA?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 12/15/2023 1:25:38 PM (No. 1617915)
Will they pay more of their "global carbon budget" for the flight? 3 seats = 3x the carbon required.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 12/15/2023 1:29:07 PM (No. 1617918)
#16, you win today's Questions That Rarely Get Asked segment of the program.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
garyhope 12/15/2023 3:56:41 PM (No. 1618019)
How about a bus or a freight train? Air Freight?
Make them walk?. Ride a bike?
How about a permanent no fly list?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
WWIIDaughter 12/15/2023 4:30:51 PM (No. 1618043)
I'm a 5'6", 135 lb. XX chromosomes, white person, per biology and appearance. However, I identify as a morbidly obese 390 lb., trans male, black person. Which of these factors will the airline challenge? I am completely serious here. Are they going to want to check my birth certificate for my race at birth? Are they going to force me to show my genitalia to establish my genuine sex? Are they going to make me stand on one of those massive scales to see my actual weight? I don't have time or energy to do the work required to test this policy, but I bet OMG (O'Keefe Media Group) does. Come on, James, go for it. And every other independent conservative journalist ought to book a reservation through the fatty ticket line. Given the videos that appear daily when (mostly) female WOC beat up airport staff and throw computers against the wall because they can't sit next to their perps, I am literally laughing with joy at the thought of a Southwest clerk telling any person that they don't look fat enough to qualify, then telling them they have to get weighed before getting that extra seat. And BTW, too bad you pathetic pale person over there who is missing your mom's funeral because your seat is now being used by someone else's bulk and snack bags.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/15/2023 6:44:53 PM (No. 1618178)
I have asthma, can I get first class all to myself? A door to separate me from the rest of the flyers too?
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Listening to influencers cost Bud Light. Is LUV going to succumb to the same thing? I guess they have. Sitting next to a passenger who was easily double my weight (320#+ vs 160#) was an unpleasant experience, like being up against a very solid wall with body odor. He, who looked like he could eat a horse, spilled over into about half of my seat. Next time I flew, I went first class.