re: AA passenger ask for reparations due to being wedged between obesity.

Sydney is awesome. Absolute wife material and would love a shot at it.

I’m 6’1” and flew middle seat with two other guys who were both taller than me. We had to maneuver some, but we were ok. You sit next to a 5’4” fat woman and there is nowhere for her to maneuver her pork chop thighs.

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Reparations is a bad way to market this. She's definitely a victim and in the right here, but don't frame it in racial terms. Fat people on planes are a problem for all of us. American should definitely throw some miles and a flight credit at her.

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"Reparations" is not an exclusively racial term...

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The problem isn’t really the fat people -

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Yes it is

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Fat people shouldn’t be allowed to fly

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They should just charge per pound. If it’s good enough to do for luggage, it’s good enough for the McDonald’s crowd.

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They should just charge per pound. If it’s good enough to do for luggage, it’s good enough for the McDonald’s crowd

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This would just give the airlines permission to advertise "$99.99" fares, just to have the fine print say the rate applies to a 75lb person, subject to a "weight adjustment fee"

They should just have a seat at the check in counter (like they do to measure overhead baggage), if you look like you might be questionable they make you sit in it and confirm you can fit.

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can't help but smile at the smirk that must have been on this guy's face when he said "no thanks".

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true, but fatties should be charged a premium and us fit people should not have to be forced to sit by them

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Fat people shouldn’t be allowed to fly

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It would, in fact, be beneficial to make them walk.

In 2007, there was a reality tv show called Fat March. Six contestants finished the March and won $40,000 each.

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Twelve seriously overweight contestants who believe they have signed up for a weight-loss program to take place inside a posh mansion receive the shock of their lives when fitness trainers Steve Pfiester and Lorrie Henry reveal the truth -- the group is going to walk more than 570 miles from Boston to Washington, D.C., in pursuit of a prize pool of $1.2 million. But there's none of that insulting business about "voting off" other players. In fact, the more people who finish in the allotted time, the larger the pot each player wins. Participants can expel a member who they think is holding them back from reaching their goal, but each time someone is eliminated, the potential prize money for each remaining competitor drops by $10,000.

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Coach seats are too small.