Woman Shared What It's Really Like "To Fly While Very Fat" And It's Heartbreaking (38 Pics)
An obese woman has given a detailed account of the precautions she must take and the struggles she faces while flying as a 'very fat person' with the hope her story will inspire other travelers to be more compassionate towards overweight passengers.
The writer, who is known as Your Fat Friend on Twitter, tweeted an entire thread about what it is really like for her to travel by plane, from the preparations she must take to the viscous complaints she's heard other passengers make about her.
None of the above should be necessary. She's paid her fare, its up to the airline to accommodate her. None of this extra seat bs. If seats weren't so small in the first place, and if the airline wasn't overbooking flights, there would not be a problem.
ReplyDeleteI once saw a champion sumo wrestler on a flight from Japan. He bought 3 seats together. I don't see why this woman is being treated so badly. Time for the airlines to start treating her, and all passengers, like human beings, instead of like "self loading freight".
Yeah that sucks. That said, you don't like it, don't fly. Same thing I say to people who complain about the TSA. If enough people would stop flying instead of complaining yet flying regardless, then things would change. Take a train, bus, drive, hire a private driver (wouldn't be any more than the plane tickets). You also could have lost 150-200 pounds in that year and a half you didn't fly, instead you kept the weight and put yourself back into the same situation.
ReplyDeleteBody weight can be an issue for smaller aircraft - pilots will need disclosure. For a larger aircraft, not having accommodation to fit the likely range of passengers is inexcusably cheap. Humans come in a statistically predictable range of sizes. Up to the airline to do that research and make their airliners fit for service. I avoid the things like the plague anyway - they burn too much kerosene per passenger-mile and are not safe in an accident. Trains just slay them on those fronts, but nobody seems to want to invest in good rail.
ReplyDeleteNot everyone has the ability to control their body weight.
ReplyDeleteIf you have an unfriendly metabolism, you are screwed.
I retired, was less active so I didn't need to eat as much and I still put on weight.
waaaa I willfully became fat and it's not fair that society notices and openly comments on my inability to exercise self control and my industrial fork!
ReplyDeleteThat's bs. Yes, people have various conditions that make it harder, but to say you can't control it is false. You can be completely bedridden and can't move at all and you'll lose weight on an 800 calorie a day diet. People who claim they "can't lose weight" are lying to themselves. Or are you going to claim that if you were locked in a jail cell and given nothing to eat every day but a can of peas you'd not lose weight? it is possible for anybody to control their body weight. The only "ability" they might not have that makes it impossible for them is lack of control and will power. And that lack is all in their own head and character, not a physical condition.
ReplyDeleteThere's always someone that knows knows better.
ReplyDeleteJust as well everyone's metabolism is identical.
No, everybody's metabolism isn't identical. But everybody burns a certain number of calories a day simply to keep their bodies running. So, even if a person never moves, they will lose weight if their intake is less than what their body burns.
ReplyDeleteYes god
ReplyDeleteIt's a trap. Food manufacturers are making food that is low nutrition, high in exitotoxins and full of sugar. At the same time, airlines are turning their flying buses into something out of the middle passage.
ReplyDeleteA nice sentiment but not at all practical. If a plane has 160 seats and sells all 160 seats but 25% of those passengers are the size of 2 "average" passengers and require the width of two seats in order to be on the plane, the airline has now overbooked by 40 people, who will all complain, and demand refunds. The airline is now using 40 seats for which it wouldn't get paid. If Chevrolet sold their corvettes and every 4th person who bought one instead took 2 without paying any extra, that's not a sustainable business model for any business, without significantly increasing the price of something which people already complain about.
ReplyDeleteMany people at this point already consider the ability to fly on a plane to be a right of some sort, so kicking 40 people off the plane is unacceptable, as would be the prospect of increasing prices for all passengers by 25% so that occasionally a passenger can have 2 seats without incurring any additional cost upon themselves.
Airline passengers are purchasing a seat that travels from point A to point B. If you require a second of that product in order to facilitate usage of the first that isn't a shortcoming on the sellers part.
A persons weight will reduce the gas mileage in a vehicle they drive too, does that mean that gas stations should provide them with extra gasoline for the same price, so that they can drive the same number of miles on a given number of gallons of gasoline? Why then should an airline provide a passenger with an extra seat, the extra fuel to carry that seat, etc?