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Overweight man sues Air France over seat row

 
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:34 pm    Post subject: Overweight man sues Air France over seat row Reply with quote

Overweight man sues Air France over seat row

PARIS (Reuters) - An overweight passenger has sued Air France after being told he was too fat and had to pay for a second seat to accommodate his bulk.

Jean-Jacques Jauffret, a French scriptwriter, told Reuters on Wednesday he had felt humiliated by Air France staff who had measured his waist in public at New Delhi airport in 2005 and decided he was too big for a single seat.
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Whom do you find correct? I feel the airline is correct
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well I agree with 380, I think the airline is correct in this case. I mean which passenger would want to be sitting next to a guy who takes off half his seat and his handrest??? I think Southwest make overweights pay for 2 seats and I think thats fair enough.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Probably Measurement could have ben done in Private.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BTW if you are forced to buy two seats do you get two meals as well???
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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BTW if you are forced to buy two seats do you get two meals as well???


I guess you are right. A person purchasing two tickets should be entiltled for two meals.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Def.1 meal per ticket.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AKLDELNonstop wrote:
BTW if you are forced to buy two seats do you get two meals as well???

Needless to say its yes...
But about that shame and all stuff one man would take just one... ask for some refils and eventually make it as good as two.
A Japenese sumo wrestler was once travelling from BOM to DEL... he had arrived from HKG in CX, the engg had already merged the two seats by removing the armrest from between and something... and that man took meals equivalent to 4 seats!!!
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shouldn't the Arm rest in between seats be Movable.Why remove it.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Shouldn't the Arm rest in between seats be Movable.Why remove it.
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Because some more additional arrangements were also made, don't exactly know the full details... will post as soon as i get them
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Because some more additional arrangements were also made, don't exactly know the full details... will post as soon as i get them


Why didn't they just give him a J seat instead of going through all the trouble of removing armrests and the like. Well our Indian careers anyway upgrade at will.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[/quote]
Because some more additional arrangements were also made, don't exactly know the full details... will post as soon as i get them[/quote]
A Belt extension would be needed.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 2:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AKLDELNonstop wrote:
the_380 wrote:

Because some more additional arrangements were also made, don't exactly know the full details... will post as soon as i get them


Why didn't they just give him a J seat instead of going through all the trouble of removing armrests and the like. Well our Indian careers anyway upgrade at will.

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Dude it was the first seat in the J class... you expect a Sumo wrestler from Japan visiting India for quite a famous tournament as a guest would be offered Y class? Even if they did he qould have himself upgraded it...
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 2:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Dude it was the first seat in the J class... you expect a Sumo wrestler from Japan visiting India for quite a famous tournament as a guest would be offered Y class? Even if they did he qould have himself upgraded it...


Sorry mate I didnt know that!!! It all makes so much more sense now.

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