Have you not sat next to a morbidly obese sweating person whose mounds of fat are spilling onto your leg, arm, shoulder? You should try it some day.

The fairest system IMHO would be to give everyone a "total weight allowance" that includes, you, and all your luggage. And if you're so big you spill onto other peoples laps, buy extra seats.

Next you'll be suggesting we give terrorists equal rights on flights as well! They're people too!

New law (based on Godwin): Whoever invokes terrorists or 9/11 in a conversation unrelated to terrorism loses.

Incidentally, I agree with the rest of your post.

If we find out that Nazis caused 9-11, it will be the end of civilized internet discourse as we know it

(ok,ok! -- I deserve the downmod for that one. Just couldn't help myself)

Yeah I agree with that :) I think obviously you have to draw the line somewhere.

> Yeah and disabled people and ill people. The take up precious time and space!

These are completely different issues. A lot of disabled people are able to sit still in their allotted space. A disability is usually also not a lifestyle choice (as obesity is in 99.99% of cases).

I have great empathy for a disabled person. But my empathy does not stretch to people who to supersize their burgers.

> Is it not a slippery slope where people who are not standardised are charged more? Maybe non standard people should sit at the back of the plane so no one has to see them?

They use up more of a service. If a fat person is in a restaurant and he eats to burgers instead of one, is he charged more or not? If you use more of a service then you should pay more.

Also, I pay good money for my small piece of seat. If you sit alongside a fat person he will unapologetically take up 30-40% of your seat space. If you do not want to charge him more, can you at least charge me less? (Since I do not get to use the seat space).

Or why not let fat people sit alongside each other? That way they can feel themselves how they make other people on the plane feel.

The very least an obese person can do is to minimise his carryon luggage – but unfortunately the opposite seems true.

Your hyperbole is inappropriate here. As an analogy, laws already make exceptions to discrimination if the nature of the job requires certain abilities. Go look for manual labor jobs and you will see statements like "applications must be able to lift X pounds to a height of Y feet". One might naively claim this was discrimination against some disabled people, but an exception is made if the job requires it.

Likewise, if a person does not physically fit into an airline seat, it does not seem unreasonable to me that they would need to pay for a second seat (or a first-class seat, or an extra large seat, however the airline chose to handle the situation).