Air France has joined other airlines in implementing an extra seat fee for “obese passengers”, according to a story in the UK Telegraph. I wrote a blog post on my travel blog “The Forward Cabin” that I believe passengers should be charged a fee only if they can prove that they can’t fit into one seat.

It appears, according to this article, that Air France agents will be making a judgement call and not give passengers the opportunity to prove that they can fit in one seat. I understand that there are some passengers that it would be obvious they cannot fit into one seat, but there are many passengers who would fall into that grey area and should be given the opportunity to prove they can fit into one seat. Thus, I do not think agents should be making arbitrary judgement calls on all passengers. What do you think?

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