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united airlines, you must buy two seats if you don't fit into one - lazydays - 04-20-2009
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Re: united airlines, you must buy two seats if you don't fit into one - cbelt3 - 04-20-2009
I liked the measurements - If your posterior is wider than 17", be prepared to remove your wallet.
Re: united airlines, you must buy two seats if you don't fit into one - AlphaDog - 04-20-2009
Rerun of a spirited discussion from four or five days ago.
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,712430,713089#msg-713089
Re: united airlines, you must buy two seats if you don't fit into one - evilrobot - 04-20-2009
of the same issue from 2002...
http://www.allbusiness.com/operations/shipping-air-freight/204558-1.html
this topic seems to raise it's head every few years. i'm not sure why it's news again, but better than more economic data, i guess.
Re: united airlines, you must buy two seats if you don't fit into one - ztirffritz - 04-20-2009
A better solution would be to price air travel by the kg being transported and have a range of seats of different sizes. Tiny ones for kids, huge ones for obese people, and regular seats for regular people. Do the same for luggage. This would make people quit griping about the extra charge for suitcases too. Maybe $3/kg. Say you're 70kg and your suitcase is 20kg your ticket would be $270. What, you're 100kg? $360 please. Sounds reasonable to me. Pay for what you use.
Re: united airlines, you must buy two seats if you don't fit into one - Robert M - 04-20-2009
zt,
Too complicated and asking for lots and lots of trouble and agita. Forexample, imagine what would happen if a family of three - a hefty dad, a skinny mom and an 6 year old - all scattered amongst the cabin. Trust me when I say that isn't going to work. Not at all.
Robert
Re: united airlines, you must buy two seats if you don't fit into one - Carnos Jax - 04-20-2009
I think they should charge by weight and size (for baggage too). They should be able to come up with some formula (the shipping companies do it). The different size seats may be unwieldy though.
Re: united airlines, you must buy two seats if you don't fit into one - Blankity Blank - 04-20-2009
Here's a wacky idea. How about the airlines cutting out the pit one against the other BS and stop trying to pack people onto flights like fraking sardines to maximize profits? You know seats that are actually comfortable even if you can't pay some wildly jacked up fare just to get a decent seat and a complimentary warm damp towel?
I know. Crazy talk. :booty:
Re: united airlines, you must buy two seats if you don't fit into one - dk62 - 04-20-2009
I completely agree with price per kg and seats of different sizes. I can (barely) fit in a coach seat, but I always travel business or first, when available, for comfort. Some of you should look into prices of international business class, though, before advocating it to the general public.
Of course, by the same logic, I am for metered Internet usage. I find the arguments at least equally compelling, but I bet that the percentage of people on this forum agreeing with that would be far different.
Re: united airlines, you must buy two seats if you don't fit into one - macphanatic - 04-20-2009
From the article: "But is it fair to make the fattest Americans spend twice as much to fly? Slate suggests that planes create sections with slightly wider seats that could be purchased for less than buying two seperate seats."
What happens when these seats are bought up by others who are willing to pay extra to be a little more comfortable? How would the airlines prevent this from happening?