So then every passenger, fat or skinny, should be required to pay for two seats.
Charlamagne defends airline policy saying particularly obese passengers must buy 2nd seat
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The people who open the window to look outside during day time when the entire cabin is dark. That one especially gets me. Sigh.
My point is that a blind person flying with a service dog, is causing disruption to passengers, as well.
Why? It isn't fair to the skinny person to be inconvenienced with half a seat when they paid for a full seat.
So requiring a fat person to buy 2, or requiring them to buy a business class seat, would ensure everyone is comfortable.
Granted this costs the fat person more, but it is the best solution for the problem.
The issue isn't to do with handicap, only space. A handicap person isn't encroaching on my space. An overly fat person is. If I am paying for a seat, I have a rightful expectation that I will be granted full use and unencumbered access to that seat.
Well it's not fair to the fat person either. The fat person has to pay for two seats, while the skinny person only has to pay for one.
So perhaps the solution is to just stick fat people together side by side. That way they aren't encroaching on the space of regular people.
Well, I could say that I don't want to sit beside a blind person with a service dog, because it makes me feel uncomfortable, and this service dog is encroaching on my space. Also, the service dog is too noisy, and the blind persons cane is getting in my way.
No, business class seat you can lie down in, these seats would still be packed in together. Business class usually has 2 in the middle and one on each side, nobody crawls over anyone. Everyone in business class has direct access to the aisle.
Maybe not, but if I'm sitting in the middle seat, and the blind person is sitting in the aisle seat with his service dog, then every time I have to use the washroom, it will be a hassle for me, to get past the blind person and his service dog, to use the washroom.
Therefore, according to your logic, the blind person flying, should be required to pay for two seats.
But that's the case regardless of whether a blind person is there of not. You have to pass by at least one person when you are no on an aisle seat. The argument is very very weak. When's the last time you heard of someone complaining about a blind person being on a plane?
Yeah but they have a disability or a physical need for which they require special accommodations which naturally costs more.
Really? Dude you are just reaching for straws now. Service dogs are well trained, unobtrusive. I have have worse issues with regular passengers(although still rare, thankfully) then any Service dog.
I've seen you tube videos, about people complaining about the blind person's service dog, and how the service dog was getting in the way or making too much noise.
Well, the last time I was on a flight, I witnessed another passenger getting irate, that he was forced to sit beside a blind person with a service dog. The flight attendant wound up getting mad at the passenger who complained. The flight had some empty seats, so the flight attendant told the complaining passenger to move seats, and he wound up sitting in another row.
