Air France: Obesity Fee
Posted by admin | Posted in Air Travel | Posted on 22-01-2010
Tags: air france, obesity fee
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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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This is total BS! Funny thing is you used a picture of a person on American Airlines and claim it’s AF.
If you weigh like 3+ and are squeezing me out of my seat and I paid the same fare as you. Why the hell should I be uncomfortable for a 5hr flight! This is a fair shake, seats are only so wide, imagine you on a bus. Wouldn’t you be more inclined to stand for your trip then be squeezed.