Go by a golden corral and you will definitely find people who don't physically fit in 1 plane seat

Exactly.

And if you're someone who has lost a lot of weight, and lived in the world of a fat person and an average-sized person, you know that very well.

It's got to do with calculating the amount of fuel for the plane. More weight requires more fuel.

Edit: I'm sure it's also partly exaggerated capitalism, the companies want every dollar they can milk from the passengers..

The ticket should come with a total weight of the passenger and their luggage. If I’m skinny let me bring 70kg bags.

The extra material and stitching you are talking about costs less than a US penny for any manufacturing process.

Once you get above about XXXL, you typically have to pay significantly more to get a shirt that fits correctly in that size.

Not arguing, just food for thought...

That only works for some clothing. Usually by the time you get to XL the arms or legs aren't proportionately wider, only the body, so the sizing often doesn't really work. If it's numbered sizes, above the regular range there usually is a premium price for + sizes, same as for petite.

Because they're offended 😂

It's an inherent flaw in the community concept in its alignment with the up/downvote system. People just droll along, don't look at comm, instance, or user, just title, and maybe text content, and then they hit up if it made them feel good, and down if it made them feel bad. This one particular comm goes against this pattern that basically every other one follows, so it never gets the correct reactions.

I mean, look at it from the passenger in front's perspective. They're paying as much for their seat as everyone else presumably, and yet if you're too tall to fit in your seat and your knees are pressed up against theirs for the whole flight, they're having a considerably worse experience than everyone else. Should they have to pay as much as everyone else does, with that in mind?

Yeah dude, corporations should be able to do whatever the fuck they want!

/s

Wow

first seeing US Airways, and then later in the article Continental mentioned, lets me know that the page linked is wildly out of date.

I wonder if Pan-Am will make an appearance.

False comparison. No one mentioned billionaires. Two completely separate topics.