If they take up two airline seats, then yes.

But not if the airline's policy states that the ticket price is for one passenger. Then the passenger is paying for their flight, not for the seat. And they shouldn't be charged the price of two seats.

But, if the passenger is paying for the space of one seat, then by all means they should have to pay for two. The airline can't just sit back and let profit fly out the window because someone is taking up more than one seat. I mean, this causes other problems with fitting other passengers on the flight that the airline would have had enough space for.

It all depends on what the airline charges for.

YES!!! By all means they should. Since I began working for T.W.A. in 1978, they have consistently made the seats and rows smaller and smaller. Anything to get more seats bringing more fares on board.

As a manager I flew First Class (poor me) but when I was a "Ramp Rat" I flew available coach. One morning I was standing in Frankfurt Airport waiting to see if I could board for New York and these two HUGE guys were speaking to one another very loudly. I thought, if I have to sit anywhere near those two I'd lose my mind. So guesssssss what? I sat in-between these two with no arm rests because their Popeye arms were taking them up! It got so loud between those two that I got up and started to walk around the aircraft. I stopped and introduced myself to some of the staff and clued them into these two. They were nice enough to allow me to sit in their jump-seats. It was the worst flight home I'd ever had.

They should, without a doubt, charge them for being much too large to fit into the seat. If I were a paying passenger I would have had plenty to say upon my arrival home but hey, free is free and you get home any way you can. But these two were much too much.

tHERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY THEY CAN SQUEEZE THEIR FAT ASS INTO ONE OF THOSE TINY SEATS. What the hell happened to my caps lock key?

have u ever been on an airline sitting next to a fat person? they take up half of your seat!!!!!!! it is not fair that u pay for a whole seat and only get half of it to sit in.

You should pay based on the expense you incur. Heavy and thin alike.

Um, I don't think they should be 'charged' for 2 seats, but I think they might want to be applied to 2 seats, if that makes sense. I know that suddenly means a drop in airline profits, but I'm pretty sure planes have weight limits applied. An the average obese person is at least the weight of 1 1/2 people, and if we had a plane full of obese people taking up each individual seat, there might be a problem. And if not with the weight capacity, then possibly with their ability to sit decently without suffocating and/or suffering some sort of a health problem from their limited space of mobility.

Yes. Maybe they should get in shape and spend the money saved on airplane seats on a gym pass or a kick-ass road bike.

I'll post here since it's empty.

But my response is neither. It should depend on the Airline company that gives out the tickets. If they want to charge extra, then go ahead, if they don't, then don't.

this is America the Free.

It would be pretty hard to tell don't you think?

What about a 275 lbs 6ft 9 pure muscle linebacker for some college? You cannot really go by weight. But then again I guess when you are buying your ticket online the company could ask questions like: Are you a fat ass? Are you thinking about food right now? Do you have trouble sitting in the movie theater seats?

I think it is impossible to tell if somebody is obese just by weight. So how could they tell?

if they can fit they don't need to buy to airline tickets

No!! That's so mean! How do you think someone obese feels reading this right now?

Well first off, I agree with thepyg.

So what exactly would the weight limit be? Because I'm pretty sure that being obese and taking up more than one seat is not exactly the same thing.

I don't think a person should have to pay for two seats because they make someone els feel uncomfortable. Unless they would apply that to everybody. Lets charge the loud and annoying people for two seats because who wants to sit by them?

But if the person is so obese that they are taking up a seat and a half then yeah, that is the only good option I can think of. It just depends on how obese the person is.

But it's up to the airline of course.

I think not, if an obese person has to pay for two seats then they just feel more self-conscience about about there wait. I should know I weigh alot and I'm always thinking what other ppl think of me. We obese people should either get the second seat free or half off.

Like freanchieak pointed out passengers are paying for the flight and not for the seats. So it is not right that they pay for the two airline seats, unless they occupy the other one. Well, that is up to the airline policy. But I have never heard of anyone being ask to pay for the extra plane seats.

I do however think ALL children should be in a paid seat. Children sitting on a parent's lap on a flight invade adjacent seats more than someone overweight. Feet, food and toys fly, the children scream as they wiggle and move around. If you want to charge for overweight people, charge for every single child on a plane too.

with airlines making the seats smaller and cramming more people in I think it's rude that it is even suggested. Seeing as they even have people sitting in the emergency exit seats now I find this ridiculous. What happens if the people sitting near the exit panics. They're allready sucking in every penny they can get.

some plane seats dont even accomodate an average person adequately. And seeing as the obesity rate in the USA is so high this would mean every second ticket has to pay double if its done on the standard obesity weight.

No. This is a very not good debate. As said by someone above, what if an obese person read this? They will be hurt , won't they?

And human are all the same. whether they are obese or not, they are still one and they should not be charged more...