Blimey, I wouldn’t want to be the member of airport staff charged with saying “Excuse me, you are too obese to board. Kindly return to check-in to retrieve your bag. Have a nice day!”
No let-up in the media badgering of the masses allowed till every last penny has been squeezed out of the whole charade though.
In that case, the airline has to accept responsibility and deal with it. Maybe they should advise all their passengers that there is always a possibility they may have a dead person seated next to them and no compensatory payments will be considered.
Having tried to move a body, I can assure you its not easy, nothing like in the films, and an overweight one, especially, is best left to professionals.
I don't think all overweight people are the walking dead. Some buy two seats to make themselves and those around them more comfortable too. A weight restriction for denying boarding would be quite problematic. And @pete is right, dead people = dead weight and that expression is accurate because they are really hard to shift. I think the ones trying to open emergency exits and things are the biggest problem not the big people.
I could never work out why airlines weighed your luggage but not the people. Surely most people weigh more than their luggage, so weighing the luggage can only be a reason to charge you extra above a certain weight and has no effect on the operation of the plane.
When my old doggie knew that she was going for a visit to the vets she used to do a “dead dog” impression, going limp and floppy. Even at about 25 kilos she was the very devil to pick up.
There's no access to the hold from the cabin (at least not in the majority of large commercial aircraft). I would have expected them to move other passengers as far away as possible from the deceased person, and certainly out of that group of seats, if there were other seats available, even if it meant moving some into business class. If they blocked someone into the window seat with a dead body, that's really bad - I would expect that person to be moved even if it meant using the crew rest area which would normally not be done. The only time I saw it was one time when I was travelling in business class and there was a couple with a very loud infant who would not be placated - unpleasant to be sitting near, but nowhere near on the scale of a dead body. they took one parent and the infant to the crew area. Still audible, but nowhere near as loud.
They showed part of an interview with the couple involved on TV this morning. Apparently they did move but not at the direction of any of the cabin crew. Another passenger informed them there was space by her. Easy to say they should have looked themselved, but that's a pretty traumatic experience.
So … the Tate brothers, accused of rape, human trafficking, money laundering, etc, are on their way to the US! Honestly, even if those currently running things happily move in circles where such things are acceptable, surely they are aware of the optics of pushing to get the brothers there? Ghislaine Maxwell is going to feel a tad hard done by.
My last flight was 9 years ago on Ryanair. Never again. Saw this on FB and thought it meritied a Whaaaaat?
Airplane flying certainly is a adventure. Just getting there and parking is nuts. Once I got a fella who was enjoying his chewing tabacco and spiting the extra saliva into a soda bottle over and over again, so gross. I managed to get the attention of the steward, and using my eyes, got her to understand that it was very uncomfortable for me, she moved him. Thank goodness.
