I don't want anyone to be humiliated by being weighed or asked to sit in a test seat at check-in and I think it's a bit sensationalist to think that would ever happen given this country's penchant for political correctness.
But I do think that policies need to be adopted so that passengers who are so overweight that they impinge upon their neighbours' personal space are given more room. Whether that's done for free, or with a fee I don't know. That's for the airlines to decide. But why should anyone be forced to pay the same amount of money as everyone else on board and suffer next to someone who can't fit in their seat?
As for weight, that's again a commercial issue that the airlines need to decide on.
But ensuring all passengers have the same personal space as one another (within a given travel class of course) is a customer service issue, and is much more important. Whilst there are complaints about being charged exhorbitant fees for excess baggage whilst another pax is massively overweight, I suspect much of the outcry regarding overweight passengers would disappear if there was a guarantee that no-one would be encroaching upon the seat you paid for.
But I do think that policies need to be adopted so that passengers who are so overweight that they impinge upon their neighbours' personal space are given more room. Whether that's done for free, or with a fee I don't know. That's for the airlines to decide. But why should anyone be forced to pay the same amount of money as everyone else on board and suffer next to someone who can't fit in their seat?
As for weight, that's again a commercial issue that the airlines need to decide on.
But ensuring all passengers have the same personal space as one another (within a given travel class of course) is a customer service issue, and is much more important. Whilst there are complaints about being charged exhorbitant fees for excess baggage whilst another pax is massively overweight, I suspect much of the outcry regarding overweight passengers would disappear if there was a guarantee that no-one would be encroaching upon the seat you paid for.