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Air travel, for plus-size passengers, comes with burdens and stigma
Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:23 am
Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:23 am
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Air travel, for plus-size passengers, comes with burdens and stigma: 'Planes were not really meant for me'
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When Jae'lynn Chaney was 12, she flew as an unaccompanied minor from her mother's home in Dallas to live with her dad in Pasco, Wash.
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"I was sitting in my seat and went to click the seatbelt together, but it didn't fit. I panicked," she tells Yahoo Life. "I didn't know what to do, so I hid the seatbelt underneath my stomach and rode the whole flight like that so nobody would know.
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"If you don't fit within a seat's armrests, you will have the option to have a complimentary seat (or seats) that you do not have to pay for," says Chaney, who works as a plus-size travel guide.
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Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:24 am to boogiewoogie1978
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Air travel, for plus-size passengers, comes with burdens and stigma
Thats natures way of telling them to start walking and eat less.
Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:26 am to boogiewoogie1978
We should weigh and measure passengers like suitcases. If they don’t fit in the model seat, they have to buy two seats
Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:26 am to boogiewoogie1978
If you can’t fit in 1 seatbelt you need to buy a 2nd seat
Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:27 am to boogiewoogie1978
I am overweight, and I would never imagine this kind entitlement. I'm a big dude and I also easily clear the seatbelt.
Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:28 am to boogiewoogie1978
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Air travel, for plus-size passengers, comes with burdens and stigma
Good.
Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:28 am to boogiewoogie1978
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'Planes were not really meant for me'
Think about this: most things in America are a bit oversized because, well......as a people we are a bit oversized. That, and we just have a whole lot of variance in the populace. That said, if you're too big for an already oversized accommodation......maybe, just maybe, you're just too fricking big in general.
Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:30 am to boogiewoogie1978
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When Jae'lynn Chaney was 12
A 12 year old being that big says more about parenting than it has to do with the airlines
Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:30 am to Upperdecker
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We should weigh and measure passengers like suitcases.
They do for helicopters here. They upcharge anyone over 250 lbs.
Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:32 am to boogiewoogie1978
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When Jae'lynn Chaney was 12
Why did her parents hate her enough, at 12, to turn her into the fatted calf, then send her out for slaughter?
Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:33 am to boogiewoogie1978
So when they force all of these planes to become fat compliant, will us actually normal sized people (or even skinny people) need to start requesting pillows to stuff behind us to make sure the seatbelts are not too loose?
Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:33 am to boogiewoogie1978
quote:that’s because being fat is a burden and a stigma. Sounds like society is working just fine
Air travel, for plus-size passengers, comes with burdens and stigma:
Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:34 am to boogiewoogie1978
it was how I felt when I was at my biggest. then I decided to lose weight and dropped 170 pounds. the 1st flight I flew after I lost it, I won't lie I teared up a little with how it felt to not be uncomfortable, or be able to fold the tray table down all the way.
I gained some of the weight back, but back to losing again (down 10 pounds the last week or so) and when I get back to my goal weight, it will feel awesome to fly again.
I gained some of the weight back, but back to losing again (down 10 pounds the last week or so) and when I get back to my goal weight, it will feel awesome to fly again.
Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:44 am to boogiewoogie1978
We should do it like Japan does--they pay by the pound over there..
Posted on 11/24/23 at 8:46 am to The Scofflaw
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We should do it like Japan does--they pay by the pound over there..
In the USA, we worry about feelings too much and the successful and healthy always end up subsidizing the unsuccessful and unhealthy.
We pay their excess costs.
Posted on 11/24/23 at 9:24 am to boogiewoogie1978
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Chaney, who works as a plus-size travel guide
WTF is this shite? Is that the job title? That's a thing?
Posted on 11/24/23 at 9:33 am to boogiewoogie1978
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This post was edited on 11/24/23 at 10:47 am
Posted on 11/24/23 at 9:35 am to boogiewoogie1978
These people always end up sitting next to me.
Posted on 11/24/23 at 10:12 am to boogiewoogie1978
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Chaney, who works as a plus-size travel guide
I see she learned nothing from her childhood experience.
Posted on 11/24/23 at 10:16 am to boogiewoogie1978
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Chaney, who works as a plus-size travel guide.
A fat travel guide, a travel guide for fats, or both?
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