Oh sure this is old topic but how can I not blog about it? What you ask? Fat people on a plane. Much better than snakes on a plane but causing way more controversy. United Airlines has jumped onto the obese people must buy two seats bandwagon. Their criteria?  “Passengers too large to fit comfortably in a coach seat may be required to buy a second ticket or upgrade to business class, where seats are larger”  ( if United's flight attendants can't find two open seats for them). Now here is my problem. “Too large to fit comfortably in a coach seat.” Um, those seats weren't comfortable when I was a size 6. I didn't fit comfortably into them then, so does that mean I should buy an extra ticket? Now I get it. No one likes the person next to them spilling over. But perhaps if the airlines had not gotten so greedy and tried to pack us in like sardines that the spillage factor might be a little less. And I think that in a time when people are choosing not to … [Read more...]