>>>That would be fine with me. I actually would be perfectly fine with
>>>paying more for an airline seat. Heavy people, who already pay more,
>>>would then have the "right" to sit in wider seats. Agree?
>>
>> And the small and/or short people who pay less could then have
>> narrower seats and less legroom. That only seems fair. Someone with a
>> 14" wide seat and 25" legroom could get a real deal.
>>
>
> No, by the time that the airlines had paid for all the new seats and
> reconfiguration of a/c and each airline's "Capacity Control" folks had
> screwed up the seat size/pitch configuration, failing to project their
> actual customers (although I suppose some of the Asian airlines would
> correctly set up for mostly "Short People" and most of the seats on Somali
> and Sudanese a/c would be set up for their majority emaciated,
> malnourished pax) and the software "engineers" had rewrit all the ticket
> vending programs to include such new fare categories as....
>
> BB - "Blubber Butt"
>
> NA - "Narrow Ass"
>
> SL - "Stork-Legged"
>
> ST - "Stumpy"
>
> TG - "Tub o'Guts"
>
> TT - "Triple Tubby" (requires all three seats on either side of 737/757
> a/c)
>
> MM - "Miniscule Midget"
>
> and finally,
>
> MF - "Mighty Fat" (requires chain hoist for pax boarding and may only be
> stowed horizontally utilizing a number of seat belt extensions)
>
> .....then airfares would be so expensive that only the wealthy and those
> on grandiose corporate expense accounts could fly, leaving regular
> salesman and computer hardware types to transit between continents in new
> "dormitory" class on rusting former cruise ships or to travel "on deck"
> in shipping containers configured as cheap motel rooms, while US bus
> companies would buy up secondhand school busses to rush business travelers
> back and forth across the US continent. In Europe, the railroads would
> take the old 40 & 8s out of museums and refurbish the velvet and horsehair
> of the old 3C cars to meet the demand for seats.
>
> Overnight, transportation would be revolutionized....
>
> TMO
Take non-air transportation back to the 1950s when service and comfort meant
everything? Not a bad idea!
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