Passengers of SIZE

[jcw]

watch airplane on A&E and you will see several episodes in which Southwest tests people in seats to determine if they have to buy an extra seat. It's a pretty easy process.

 

[2clippedwings]

watch airplane on A&E and you will see several episodes in which Southwest tests people in seats to determine if they have to buy an extra seat. It's a pretty easy process.

OK, YOU do it!
I'm not interested in creating any more unhappy passengers than there are already. Especially not in an RJ.
Time to sign up for self-defense courses 😉

 

[JAXPax]

Don't forget the in-flight farters. :down:

Yes, those crop-dusting flight attendants need to go.

 

[LCC_#1]

Until US Airways revises it's policy against the OBESE flight attendants that extend WELL over the jumpseat, you can forget enforcing this policy. Can you imagine F/A Two Ton Betty telling a passenger their too fat for their seat? Would I love to be a fly on THAT overhead.

 

[longing4piedmont]

Until US Airways revises it's policy against the OBESE flight attendants that extend WELL over the jumpseat, you can forget enforcing this policy. Can you imagine F/A Two Ton Betty telling a passenger their too fat for their seat? Would I love to be a fly on THAT overhead.

Until it is added to the US contract of carriage it will not be enforcable. But you do bring up an interesting and entertaining possibility.

 

[ClueByFour]

Contract of carriage or AFA contract?

Either, really--although in that post I was referring to the AFA contract.

 

[BoeingBoy]

Either, really--although in that post I was referring to the AFA contract.

That's what I figured, but I wasn't sure....

Assuming that the F/A contract is similiar to the pilot contract, it deals almost exclusively with company-F/A interaction. There's probably very little in it concerning customer service - that's would be in their published procedures, just like our rules for flying the plane are in either the airplane manual for flight ops manual.

Jim

 

[Travelpro72]

Well I must say that isn't it funny that the company can't really say anything about a flight attendant being overweight or FAT...whatever the acceptable word for it is yet they feel they can throw someone off an a/c. If they can't fit in a seat be it a j/s or a passenger seat the same rule should apply. Hey, if they went back to weight restrictions of some sort all the recalls would be flying again and we'd be hiring off the street.

 

[Heinrich]

You know those carry-on sizing cages that are around airports?

They need ass cages that slide up and down the wall to match your height. Everyone has to back up into the cage with their ass sticking out to see if it fits. GA rotate ass monitoring duties.

 

[AIRWOMAN]

You know those carry-on sizing cages that are around airports?

They need ass cages that slide up and down the wall to match your height. Everyone has to back up into the cage with their ass sticking out to see if it fits. GA rotate ass monitoring duties.

Like this one? There's even a scale!

http://www.hobotraveler.com/128_01bristol/0005.JPG

 

[wildirishrose]

There is NO WAY I'm going to tell someone their "booty" is too big. Give me a break

 

[Travelpro72]

If a passenger makes it past the agent and down the jetway then an oversized issue is to become the flight attendants problem. WRONGOOOOOO! ! ! ! I don't care WHAT kind of policy they make up. It WILL NOT be adhered to trust us. It is NOT a flight attendants duty to tell someone in a sugar coated way that they are to fat for their seat. Did the people that thought this up THINK that we will do it? Anything else we should start doing? 🙄

 

[luvn737s]

Do you count them double on the passenger manifest? How many souls on board? How does that jibe with the ticket count? US is making a big mistake.

Weight is the acceptable bigotry now that race and gender have been taken away. Why not shame the fatty into slimming down? Heck they are oblivious to their weight, isn't everybody? Yep a little more self-loathing is just the thing to melt off those pounds.

"No ma'm this is not a racial thing, you are 350 lbs. Now step aside so these 2 nice little blonde non-rev girls can have a seat."

 

[Dog Wonder]

Did the people that thought this up THINK that we will do it? Anything else we should start doing? 🙄

what people did think this up?

Would they please step forward?

 

[BoeingBoy]

what people did think this up?

Obviously not the one's that'll have to enforce it.....

Having said that, I'm generally in favor of the policy. If a person is of a size that they protrude into an adjacent passengers seat, it's not fair to the other passenger who paid for their entire seat but ends up unwillingly sharing it.

The company did 2-1/2 things wrong:

1 - Not making the policy change public well before putting it in place. It's probable that people will only find out about this new policy after they've settled into their seat.

2 - Making the F/A the "size police". This should be handled no later than the gate.

2-1/2 - adopt the WN policy of "can they sit in the seat with the armrests down". That's a lot simpler than the 1" overlap if they ask for an extension silliness. FWIW, someone started what's turned out to be a thriving business selling seatbelt extensions. Under this new policy, if someone doesn't ask for an extension (they have their own), are they even affected?

Jim