Tall/larger people in economy seats

A few years ago, on a return flight from Las Vegas, we had the "pleasure" of being seated next to a huge, 300+lb. Slob. He overflowed his seat and reeked of booze and B.O. That was probably the worst flight we ever had....luckily, it was non-stop, so we only had to endure that for about 2 hours, but we were sure glad when the plane landed.
 
I remember walking onto a plane with a work colleague and seeing an extremely obese man sitting in Coach. We were both praying that we weren't seated next to him. If only someone could have taken a picture of the expression on our faces at the time. :oops:
 
My worst "seat story" was when I reached my row, where I was ticketed for an aisle seat, and found PoS's (Passengers of Size, as they're quietly referred to in the airline industry) sitting in the aisle and window seats. And when I say "size", I mean GIANT ECONOMY SIZE.

The female, without actually looking straight at me barks, "Go sit somewhere else. My husband isn't moving." Okaaaay, at that point I certainly don't want to push the issue and spend six hours smashed against the window, so I swim upstream to find a crewmember and explain my problem.

Which I do.....and she barks at me, "Just take another seat!" I ask, "Which seat?" "I don't know what's available; take a seat and we'll straighten it out."

So, I take a seat in the back and the person whose seat it was immediately shows up and barks at me to get out of his seat. Take another seat....same thing happens. For the amount of barking I'm receiving, you'd think I was on an AKC charter flight to the Westminster Dog Show.

I decide to just stand in the back until it's clear which seats are actually unoccupied. I immediately get barked at by another flight attendant, "Take your seat! You can't stand there!"

At that point, I about lost it.

I finally got a seat, even another window seat at that, but I'll bet if I had insisted on my original seat and persisted or there had been no other seats available, I would have been the one kicked off.
 
I sat in my beloved window seat. A very large man, who basically overflowed the seat sat next to me. I was glad I was skinny, so I could skootch over, still be comfortable, and not have to have body contact with him. He overflowed onto our shared armrest, and over it. He slept during the entire flight, which was only about 2 hours long.
 
What I hate about airline seats is the middle arm rest fight. You don't want to be a hog, and claim it, but you are uncomfortable, trying not to want to use it. What is the "middle arm rest protocol"? Don't the airlines know you have TWO arms?
 
fuzzybuddy said:
What I hate about airline seats is the middle arm rest fight. You don't want to be a hog, and claim it, but you are uncomfortable, trying not to want to use it. What is the "middle arm rest protocol"? Don't the airlines know you have TWO arms?
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They also know that there are a lot of people who are tall, and/or who are more than 12" wide.
 
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