Friendlier Skies Needed For The Plus-Sized?

Our “everyone’s a victim” culture went sky high as a plus-sized person demanded “discriminating” airlines accommodate her w/bigger seats & Johns. When did obesity become a Constitutionally “protected” class?

Not that the “plus-size” complainer’s FAA petition didn’t make many good points, segments of which were published by Fox News. And, she apparently got hundreds of plus-size folks to sign her petition to right the airlines’ alleged “mistreatment” of them. Those mistreatment charges include passengers giving dirty looks, refusing to sit next to a plus-size & unacceptably small seats that even hefty folks have trouble sitting in. Her solutions, however, include a broad policy statement that: “The airline industry has a responsibility to provide a safe, comfortable … & inclusive … environment for all passengers, regardless of their size.”

It's that woke catch-phrase “inclusive” demand, i.e., without any limits or relative to real world circumstances, that maybe’s going to be the biggest sticking point for the FAA & the industry it regulates. Common sense, of course, tells us THAT ain’t gonna happen, no matter how many legalistic “catch-phrases” referencing the ADA she throws at the FAA. Her underlying “Reasonable accommodation” exception argument to those long-established, related workplace rules to the contrary is not likely to make for bigger bathrooms or increasing the size of the typical seat for even a 325-pound President Taft. Yet would it make sense for the airlines (who figured out how to get away with complimentary cookies instead of calorie-laden dinner) to finally find a middle ground for everyone’s sake (other than charging for an extra seat)?

Davd Soul