I fully agree, its terrible to sit next to someone very obese. Especially if its a long flight, you're leaning the other way to avoid contact with the obese person. I don't hate fat people but if your body impacts other people like above then its not ok. And some of them smell.
Radio host Charlamagne tha God praised an upcoming airline policy change on Wednesday, saying obese passengers should consider eating less food if they don’t want to buy a second seat to accommodate their size.
Beginning on Jan. 27, 2026, Southwest Airlines will ditch open seating, having previously had a "pick any seat" policy, allowing customers to purchase tickets in different boarding groups by selecting where they wanted to sit upon boarding the plane.
The airline has also cautioned portly customers "who encroach upon the neighboring seat(s)" to proactively purchase the necessary number of seats prior to travel. Next month, however, such customers "will be required to purchase an additional seat and pay any applicable seat fee at the airport."
"Why don’t they just make them fly cargo?" Charlamagne asked on "The Breakfast Club" radio show as his crew discussed the upcoming change. "And furthermore, I don’t have a problem at all with this, OK? If you are too big for one seat, then you just got to buy two seats. Don't act like the plane is doing something to you. You know how big you are!"
"Well, you shouldn't have been eating so much bread. You need to stop eating bread. All right? OK. By the way, tall people got to go through this, too! Tall people gotta buy the extra leg-room seats, so it ain’t just fat people that gotta deal with this. If you’re a tall person, you gotta buy extra legroom because you know you need it."
"I don’t think that this is any wrongdoing of the plane, is what I’m simply saying," Charlamagne said, going on to mention how stuffing somebody who does not fit well into a seat is not only a disservice to them, but to whomever sits next to them.
He later concluded by telling listeners, "So Southwest is making a push to cut costs, it’s the new year, you should make a push to cut weight, OK? That should be your New Year's resolution."
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Radio host Charlamagne tha God praised an upcoming airline policy change on Wednesday, saying obese passengers should consider eating less food if they don’t want to buy a second seat to accommodate their size.
Beginning on Jan. 27, 2026, Southwest Airlines will ditch open seating, having previously had a "pick any seat" policy, allowing customers to purchase tickets in different boarding groups by selecting where they wanted to sit upon boarding the plane.
The airline has also cautioned portly customers "who encroach upon the neighboring seat(s)" to proactively purchase the necessary number of seats prior to travel. Next month, however, such customers "will be required to purchase an additional seat and pay any applicable seat fee at the airport."
"Why don’t they just make them fly cargo?" Charlamagne asked on "The Breakfast Club" radio show as his crew discussed the upcoming change. "And furthermore, I don’t have a problem at all with this, OK? If you are too big for one seat, then you just got to buy two seats. Don't act like the plane is doing something to you. You know how big you are!"
"Well, you shouldn't have been eating so much bread. You need to stop eating bread. All right? OK. By the way, tall people got to go through this, too! Tall people gotta buy the extra leg-room seats, so it ain’t just fat people that gotta deal with this. If you’re a tall person, you gotta buy extra legroom because you know you need it."
"I don’t think that this is any wrongdoing of the plane, is what I’m simply saying," Charlamagne said, going on to mention how stuffing somebody who does not fit well into a seat is not only a disservice to them, but to whomever sits next to them.
He later concluded by telling listeners, "So Southwest is making a push to cut costs, it’s the new year, you should make a push to cut weight, OK? That should be your New Year's resolution."
Charlamagne defends airline policy saying particularly obese passengers must buy 2nd seat
Radio host Charlamagne tha God says obese passengers should eat less if they don't want to purchase additional airline seats under Southwest's new rules.
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