Airline Tips for Large Passengers

The Master wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, TMOliver wrote:
>
>> With all your "jimmy-rigging" of seats before every departure, I'm
>> sure that
>
> WTF are you talking about? The act of placing down the arm rest on
> either side of you can be used to lock the sections in the middle.
> Scoot in all the way against the window, place down the arm rest. Your
> sections are now locked. Next person scoots in, places down their arm
> rest, his sections are now locked. The third person scoots in, places
> down the arm rest, you get the point. The locking mechanism can be
> within the seat segments, no external rigging required.
>
>> the time needed for "turn-around" and boarding a commuter flight (or any
>> other flight for that matter) would increase to the point that frequency
>> would drop substantially and fares increase grandly .
>
> Because of the 2 seconds required to put down an arm rest? More time is
> wasted by old people trying to put their bags in the overhead bins.
>

And if 2 big guys sit down in that row, what does the airline do with
the 12" 'seat' that is left?

I won't even try to address the absurdity of trying to get a seat with
that many parts to meet crash standards, or be as light as existing
seats. And as poorly as most seats are maintained NOW, just think what
quadrupling the moving parts count would do.

The Feds should mandate seat size and pitch based on 9Xth percentile of
pax size, for safety reasons if nothing else. That would counter most of
the 'competition' excuse for the kiddie-size seats. Some of those
sardine can flights make my legs numb enough that a sudden evac could
get real problematical. Height is my problem, not width or depth. Some
of the larger folks I see on flights, if there is even a gentle crash
landing, won't be getting out till the rescue crews get on scene. Nor
will the people stuck in the window seats beside them.

aem sends...

On Dec 12, 3:55 pm, aemeijers <aemeij...@att.net> wrote:
> The Master wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, TMOliver wrote:
>
> >> With all your "jimmy-rigging" of seats before every departure, I'm
> >> sure that
>
> > WTF are you talking about? The act of placing down the arm rest on
> > either side of you can be used to lock the sections in the middle.
> > Scoot in all the way against the window, place down the arm rest. Your
> > sections are now locked. Next person scoots in, places down their arm
> > rest, his sections are now locked. The third person scoots in, places
> > down the arm rest, you get the point. The locking mechanism can be
> > within the seat segments, no external rigging required.
>
> >> the time needed for "turn-around" and boarding a commuter flight (or any
> >> other flight for that matter) would increase to the point that frequency
> >> would drop substantially and fares increase grandly .
>
> > Because of the 2 seconds required to put down an arm rest? More time is
> > wasted by old people trying to put their bags in the overhead bins.
>
> And if 2 big guys sit down in that row, what does the airline do with
> the 12" 'seat' that is left?
>
> I won't even try to address the absurdity of trying to get a seat with
> that many parts to meet crash standards, or be as light as existing
> seats. And as poorly as most seats are maintained NOW, just think what
> quadrupling the moving parts count would do.
>
> Some of the larger folks I see on flights, if there is even a gentle crash
> landing, won't be getting out till the rescue crews get on scene. Nor
> will the people stuck in the window seats beside them.
>
What exactly constitutes a "gentle crash landing?" I don't think I've
ever heard the words gentle, and crash associated like that before.

BR.