re: Severely overweight people on airplanes….

I wish flying had a lot of barriers to usage. BMI could be one, intelligence another one, smelling ok being another one, etc.

So their should be a sign at ticketing:

No fatties
No dummies
No stinkies

It would be a decent start. I would like it to be even more restrictive than that. No pajamas, for example, is another good one. Must also carry a card allowing the wearing of yoga pants or otherwise revealing clothing. Cards must be issued by the Men of Airlines guild clothing review board, staffed with male airline pilots who are ex Navy or Air Force pilots. Reviews must be held in person at nearest airport and renewed annually via remote weigh in.

I think this is fair. Large body habitus rows. Six to eight seats on each plane. Each seat is 1.5 regular airplane seats wide. They cost 1.5 times as much. If a fatty tries to sneak by with a regular seat, they get booted and have to buy a new ticket in the fat rows.

I’m always amazed when I go home to
Louisiana at how fat the state is.

But tall people also have the exit row option.

I was once on a flight from Hartford, CT to Atlanta with the Connecticut WNBA team when they had to fly commercial. My wife and I had exit row seats. We are above average height, but no more than one standard deviation above the mean. We recognized the right thing to do and gave our exit row seats to those super-tall lesbians. The coach was 6'8"!