I feel bad for the OP really, if anything I'm near to or under average weight for my height ( 5'7 and 55kg), but I feel it's kind of unfair that at an airport people heavier than me pay the same for a ticket when luggage costs are based so massively on weight. Since they seem to "punish" people for being overweight by forcing them to buy multiple tickets, can't they "reward" underweight people by giving them extra luggage weight allowances xD Feel free to rage or whatever, just an observation, since the cost (or rather.. price) of transporting weight on an airline is so tightly measured.

ouch.. sometimes you can't help genetics.. btw have you heard the song: "I like big booty bitches, I like big booty bitches I like big booty bitches I like big booty bitches..."

FATTY!

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Not for nothing, but this situation isn't cut and dry. I always fly economy - always. I've taken a few international flights, which are miserable enough because of spending 8 hours in the same spot in a seat that won't recline and has the lumbar support of a ladder-back dining chair. However, on the way back from my last international trip, I was stuck in one of the middle seats in the center row. On one side of me was a TALL man - he was of average build, but still a big guy because of his height and so he filled his alloted space. The woman next to me was morbidly obese and her sides and were spilling literally three inches over the arm rest. Eight. Hours. I couldn't move for leaning on either of my neighbors. I couldn't sleep, and getting up to walk was a chore - a full row on one side and a large woman with limited mobility on the other. She herself was having a miserable time. She kept shifting, couldn't sleep and it was obvious that the arm rest was digging into her sides. That and she wouldn't look at me the whole time - embarrassment, I'm sure. How was that arrangement fair to either of us? I'm smooshed like a sardine and she's squeezed into this space not meant for someone her size. Giving her more space (i.e. a second seat) would have been only fair. I can't see justifying making her paying full price for the second seat, but half or a third of the price would be fair.

So many of these comments are cruel. :(

If your blubber spills over into the next seat, even just enough that it's on the armrest, you should have to pay for a second seat. I don't pay to have some sweaty lard spilling onto my lap and you'd better believe I'd complain if someone that fat was next to me.

YDNDI. (You did NOT deserve it). But hey, If I were you I'd take it to court. |:

It's your wake up call, put down the hamburgers you were going to eat and get out and do some exercise. You deserved it for eating too much.

wow instead of spending 300 dollars to fly to dallas you should take that money and buy a treadmill... at least this way your making an investment to save money on future trips