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Obese entitled to 2 airline seats- Canada
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It's because the entire seat is occupied. They cannot put 2 toddlers in one seat. Obese people who occupy two seats should pay for it since airlines can only charge per seat occupied. To charge an overweight person for 1.5 seats and put a toddler in the other half is plain ludicrous!
If I am going to be strapped into a thin aluminum tube, going 500 + miles per hour, five miles up in the air, I want the best paid, happiest man alive to be the driver!Not everyone! I looooove airline pilots, and they need to be paid more, not less.
problem is that, especially in international flights, children over two *may* get the 10% discounted 'children fare' on the full fare price only (not including all the taxes), when the regular customer will get better pricing just by shopping around.
so in reality, there is no discount whatsoever for kids (i have two): it much more convenient to get regular tickets. Furthermore, there might be strings attached to the luggage deal, too.
at least on that one tall people have a legitimate argument. One can not control there height. It is possible for people to control there weight.
Let me tell you being on the tall side it has it problems. I can not get a sun roof in cars because it eats up to much head room. more leg room on planes would be nice but no one bends over backwards to make sure I get it.
I suffer from claustrophobia. I pretty much need to quarantined off from the rest of the passengers. Three empty rows in front and behind me would be nice.
Canada is a great country, but they sure do make some silly decisions sometimes. They're being too nice by even allowing airlines to make such decisions. I never understood why having standard seats for fat people was "discriminatory". How is the airline discriminating against anyone? This decision is more discriminatory, in my opinion.
You're not alone there. I ended up buying the wagon version of the WRX because it has 2 more inches of headroom compared to the sedan to begin with and then add to that the fact it's darn near impossible to find a sedan (short of ordering a brand new one) without a sunroof (which sucks up yet 2 more inches of headroom or so) and I ended up with 4 inches more headroom in the wagon over a typical sedan. I hate having to recline my seat somewhat in cars just to avoid hitting my head on the ceiling. Don't even get me started on cars like Miata. I can't even get my leg under the steering column.
Yes, it is, but it is discriminatory for a larger <no pun intended> segment of the population. And, being Canadians, most of us just shrug, let it pass and pay the higher flight costs.
We need more American gumption up our collective behinds.
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Amusment parks in Canada forced to add cars with double seats to all rides, and increase weight tolerances on structures, costing millions, reducing profits raising ticket prices, reducing demand for amusments parks, and now we have no amusement parks. Because fat people couldn't stop eating.
Amusment parks in Canada forced to add cars with double seats to all rides, and increase weight tolerances on structures, costing millions, reducing profits raising ticket prices, reducing demand for amusments parks, and now we have no amusement parks. Because fat people couldn't stop eating.