Just wanted to see what you guys think....

LMAO! ! ! You guys crack me up. I have to deal with this every day at work. Obesity is a problem. . . . yes. But its not the Airlines fault that the person is over weight. And its not their fault that the seats are soooooo small either. Its the company that produces the aircraft. If your gona get mad at someone over a seat. . . . talk to the manufacturer. As was said before. . . . if you take up more than one seat. . . your gona pay for 2 seats. Thats just the way it is.

PS: Yes, I work at an Airport. . . boy do I have some stories. ;)

My take on it:

You get what you pay for. You pay for one seat, you get one seat. If nobody is sitting next to you, people will probably overlook it if you take up more than one in terms of space, but the skinny person next to the overlarge person has just as much right to his full allotment of space as anyone else :P

Therefore, if you feel squeezed, feel free to buy two for your own comfort. But don't 'steal' from other passengers.

um...this may have been mentioned but, isn't there a barrier between the seat's....how can some one sit on that ?!!

- Noia

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Originally posted here by Noia
um...this may have been mentioned but, isn't there a barrier between the seat's....how can some one sit on that ?!!

- Noia

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Just as a side note, Noia, most of the time, this barrier is an armrest that can be lifted.

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But its not the Airlines fault that the person is over weight. And its not their fault that the seats are soooooo small either. Its the company that produces the aircraft. If your gona get mad at someone over a seat. . . . talk to the manufacturer. As was said before. . . . if you take up more than one seat. . . your gona pay for 2 seats. Thats just the way it is.

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RogueSpy -- don't the airlines have some control over that? Didn't American Airlines go through and rip out some of their seats to make room?

Anyway...just as a clarification (I saw some statistics a while ago), from an article I just read (URL below) it looks like the official United States statistics state that 56.4 percent of Americans are classified as overweight (someone just over their target weight), and 19.8 percent of Americans are classified as obese. Officially, you use the Body Mass Index to classify if your overweight or obese:

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Although the official formula uses kilograms for body weight and meters for height, here is a step-by-step calculation using a 5-foot-6-inch, 130-pound woman as an example:

1. Multiply body weight in pounds by 0.45 (130 x .45 1/2 58.5).

2. Multiply height in inches by .025 (66 x .025 1/2 1.65)

3. Multiply Answer 2 by itself (1.65 x 1.65 1/2 2.72).

4. Divide Answer 1 by Answer 3 for estimated BMI (58.5 divided by 2.72 1/2 21.5).

If your BMI is 25 to 30, you are considered overweight by public health standards. Any BMI over 30 qualifies as obese. The measure can be misleading if a person is muscular with reduced body fat, but that group of Americans remains a decided minority. For most, BMI is a soothsayer of health.

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Source: http://news.foot.com/news/988.html

W00t. An even 25.

Look at it this way, if the seat-designers accidentally make them too small, then enough people will need two seats that they'll complain and... well, market pressure will hurt the company, as people go to nicer airlines :)