United Airlines is currently charging "extra-wide" passengers for an extra seat. Now the flight attendants will be on the plane looking for large passengers who can't buckle their seat belts or put their arm rests down completely. This is something that should've been paid more attention to earlier. They are doing this because the weight of one person may be the weight of two, which cannot happen or the weight of the plane won't be evenly distributed throughout the whole plane and could cause problems, especially when the bad whether kicks in because there could be uneven balancing.
If the plane is full, the overweight passenger is to wait until two seats are available that they can purchase. The passenger either has to choose from buying a whole extra seat or upgrading to a cabin seat. One of the reasons companies are doing this is to try to make the goal to make sure that the majority of the passengers are happy and comfortable while still making a profit on the discounted seating.
This will also solve any of the problems with neighbors having to deal with 'crowded space'. A lot of overweight people do not feel that this is right for them to have to pay for being a larger person. They think that it would be more sensible just to have to pay a little extra. Now that United Airlines has issued this new "law" more and more airline companies are starting the new trend as well.
Purchasing a second seat comes in helpful also for the passenger, however. Most say that it is very uncomfortable if you don’t and one seat makes you very sore after you get off the plane. It used to be that the airlines would just offer you a seat out of politeness, but now they are charging passengers because they were losing too much money considering 35 percent of all United States citizens are obese ( according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
In my opinion they should either make the seats wider, or keep charging passengers double the original price, making them very angry. If I was riding on the plane and the flight attendant approached me telling me that I am too big for just one seat I would feel very embarrassed and humiliated. That is why I would ask for a second seat even before I boarded the plane so that wouldn’t happen.
If the plane is full, the overweight passenger is to wait until two seats are available that they can purchase. The passenger either has to choose from buying a whole extra seat or upgrading to a cabin seat. One of the reasons companies are doing this is to try to make the goal to make sure that the majority of the passengers are happy and comfortable while still making a profit on the discounted seating.
This will also solve any of the problems with neighbors having to deal with 'crowded space'. A lot of overweight people do not feel that this is right for them to have to pay for being a larger person. They think that it would be more sensible just to have to pay a little extra. Now that United Airlines has issued this new "law" more and more airline companies are starting the new trend as well.
Purchasing a second seat comes in helpful also for the passenger, however. Most say that it is very uncomfortable if you don’t and one seat makes you very sore after you get off the plane. It used to be that the airlines would just offer you a seat out of politeness, but now they are charging passengers because they were losing too much money considering 35 percent of all United States citizens are obese ( according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
In my opinion they should either make the seats wider, or keep charging passengers double the original price, making them very angry. If I was riding on the plane and the flight attendant approached me telling me that I am too big for just one seat I would feel very embarrassed and humiliated. That is why I would ask for a second seat even before I boarded the plane so that wouldn’t happen.
Airlines are even scrapping unnecessary items such as magazines, telephones, and occasionally life vests to make up for overweight loads. Another way to make up for people’s weight is to decrease the size and weight of their carry on bags.
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