Japan Airlines lays on extra plane after sumo wrestlers make too heavy to fly
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Re: Japan Airlines lays on extra plane after sumo wrestlers make too heavy to fly
#2Pacific Island communities have to do this because of pretty severe weight issues with light aircraft and (without over-stating it) some beyond XXL local residents.
People get hinky, but I think I'd rather get on an aircraft which understood it's risk exposure to overweight than not.
Whats utterly crap is the way large people are hounded into expensive seats on specious "it's your lifestyle" reasons: If aircraft seating dimensions cannot accommodate people then just like the ambulance services, they need to adapt to the weight profile of the community they serve.
Remember: Flying is a fully regulated market. It's not actually just their business what the seat pitch is.
Price is already sufficiently mutable that if they have to take a profit hit for larger pax, thats ok with me (I am not btw, a larger passenger)
I have flown in craft where they asked us to move seats for takeoff because the loading map wasn't working out how they expected (code share can do that if too many people get specific seat allocations outside the craft operators control) and also been asked (once) to deplane with 40 or so others, so the 747 could taxi to the far slot on LAX, and then wait to have the tires cool, before we were bussed out to board on the runway. That was an experience: midnight flight out, screaming jets, those stairs and the lights vanishing off into the distance. There is something very "metal" about boarding a large aircraft on the tarmac close to launch, rather than at a gate or on the apron.
Re: Japan Airlines lays on extra plane after sumo wrestlers make too heavy to fly
#3Sounds like what could be the setting for a Wes Anderson movie.
Re: Japan Airlines lays on extra plane after sumo wrestlers make too heavy to fly
#4Pacific Island communities have to do this because of pretty severe weight issues with light aircraft and (without over-stating it) some beyond XXL local residents. People get hinky, but I think I'd rather get on an aircraft which understood it's risk exposure to overweight than not. Whats utterly crap is the way large people are hounded into expensive seats on specious "it's your lifestyle" reasons: If aircraft seat…
“Whats utterly crap is the way large people are hounded into expensive seats on specious "it's your lifestyle" reason”
I disagree. Airplane tickets are expensive and the seats are already extremely cramped. If you don’t adequately fit in your seat, why should the person at your side have to suffer?
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#5Pacific Island communities have to do this because of pretty severe weight issues with light aircraft and (without over-stating it) some beyond XXL local residents. People get hinky, but I think I'd rather get on an aircraft which understood it's risk exposure to overweight than not. Whats utterly crap is the way large people are hounded into expensive seats on specious "it's your lifestyle" reasons: If aircraft seat…
When I buy 1 plane ticket, I expect 1.0 of a seat. Not 0.7 seats, nor 0.9 seats. Exactly 1 seat, no overhang, no getting squished. No invading the seats airspace.
Exactly 1 seat.
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#6Wonder if they'll do what some airlines in USA do, people of larger weights need to buy 2 seats instead.
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#7> Mainoumi, who reached the top division in the 1990s, weighed about the same as the England rugby captain, Owen Farrell
I wonder if Owen Farrell knows he's now a unit of measurement.
Re: Japan Airlines lays on extra plane after sumo wrestlers make too heavy to fly
#8Pacific Island communities have to do this because of pretty severe weight issues with light aircraft and (without over-stating it) some beyond XXL local residents. People get hinky, but I think I'd rather get on an aircraft which understood it's risk exposure to overweight than not. Whats utterly crap is the way large people are hounded into expensive seats on specious "it's your lifestyle" reasons: If aircraft seat…
“Whats utterly crap is the way large people are hounded into expensive seats on specious "it's your lifestyle" reason” I disagree. Airplane tickets are expensive and the seats are already extremely cramped. If you don’t adequately fit in your seat, why should the person at your side have to suffer?
Their point is that the seats are not sized to 'common people'.
At the very least I'd say it's likely a not-small portion of American adults are larger than common airline seats want them to be.
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#9> Mainoumi, who reached the top division in the 1990s, weighed about the same as the England rugby captain, Owen Farrell I wonder if Owen Farrell knows he's now a unit of measurement.
The imperial units are getting out of hand.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Whats utterly crap is the way large people are hounded into expensive seats on specious "it's your lifestyle" reason” I disagree. Airplane tickets are expensive and the seats are already extremely cramped. If you don’t adequately fit in your seat, why should the person at your side have to suffer?
Their point is that the seats are not sized to 'common people'. At the very least I'd say it's likely a not-small portion of American adults are larger than common airline seats want them to be.
If airlines increase seat width to accommodate overweight, no of seating in aircraft will go down, which will lead to increase in per seat pricing, in effect healthy people will be subsidising overweight.