Size matters when other people are involved. For passengers that have to occupy seats right next to, or in front of the overweight passenger, size really does matter. Being cramped on a plane means a miserable ride for hours upon hours. No one wants a person next to them that takes up some of their seat. One cannot be expect to ride comfortably next to an overweight person, where the

person is spilling over into their seat. People in front of the overweight person might experience kicking or knees constantly in the back of their seat, which would cause discomfort to anyone of any size. Cramped passengers have filed complaints on the fact that overweight passengers have made their traveling experience a nightmare. Would you want to sit like a sardine for even an hour on an airplane already equipped with a cramped size of seats, aisles and storage bins?

Size matters for safety reasons. It is not safe, comfortable or fair for a person who has purchased a ticket to be left with only a portion of a seat. Nor is it safe, comfortable or fair for the overweight person to occupy just one seat. Occupying one seat means that the seat belt would have to fit properly and it just cannot happen for an overweight person. There are already seat belt expansions for semi-overweight persons on airplanes. If two tickets were purchased there would be no need for seat belt expansions, both seat belts could be brought together to form a rather large seat belt for the occupant. The safety factor could be an issue if during an emergency landing the overweight passenger could not get out of the seat in time to make it off the plane before it blew up.

People should realize that overweight people do need an extra seat and that if an extra ticket is not paid for and the extra seat is not used it could cause excessive losses of money, unsafe flying condition, and irate

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