Yeah, just fuck off.
A plus-sized influencer has demanded the Federal Aviation Authority and airlines give overweight flyers as many free seats as they require to fly comfortably.
Jaelynn Chaney, a travel and lifestyle creator based in Vancouver, wants the Federal Aviation Authority to ‘protect’ plus-sized travelers and make flying in coach ‘comfortable and accessible for everyone.’
Eat less, exercise more. Problem solved. No, we do not need to accommodate land whales.
She also wants airlines to be forced to refund overweight passengers for any extra seats they’re forced to purchase when booking to accommodate their size.
Jesus, she doesn’t want much. Eat less, exercise more. Problem solved. Or just don’t fly.
In videos posted to her Instagram, Chaney has widely documented her struggles flying, from showing her and her boyfriend being tightly packed into seats to showing what some passengers have said to her, including asking her if she bought two seats.
‘They say it’s not fair to the person who has to sit next me if I don’t,’ text overlaid on the video read. ‘When I tell them I do, they say I’m selfish for taking a seat from another.’
You are being selfish, but you could just eat less and exercise more, then you wouldn’t be a hideous land whale and wouldn’t need two or more seats. Problem solved. Either way, it is not up to others to solve the problem, it is up to you and the problem is solvable by you. You choose not to. Fair enough, choices have consequences. No sympathy.
She also believes crew members should undergo training on ‘how to accommodate plus-size travelers, including handling sensitive situations and providing appropriate customer service.’
Ah, yes, me, me, me, me…
However, Chaney pointed out she did not know who would have to fund the cost of the changes…
They never do, do they? Not just hideously fat but selfish, entitled and stupid with it. Eat less, exercise more. Problem solved. Either way, fuck off.
Reminds me of the Rodney Dangerfield joke.
She was a fat girl.
‘ How fat? ‘
I ran into her in my car, when she asked me why I didn’t go around her, I told her that I didn’t think I had enough gas.
Or. She leaves stretch marks in the bath tub.
Entitled people need to understand that the world doesn’t revolve around them.
In this case, it probably does. Boom boom!
“‘how to accommodate plus-size travelers,”
Shoe horn? Grease?
Capitalism if it was inclined to, could easily solve her problem. Airlines could easily provide bigger seats for fat people and charge a premium price. They might find that quite a few normal sized people were willing to pay the higher price for the extra space. I suspect that there isn’t the market for it, keeping flying as cheap as possible seems to be the winning strategy at the moment. Over to you fat people, let the airlines know that you are prepared to pay extra to make it worth their while to accommodate you.
I dread to think what “help in sensitive situations” means. Especially in tiny transport toilets. A bit more than wielding a sponge soaked in vinegar on the end of a stick.
She is ignoring the physics of flying. An aircraft can only carry so much weight (be it passengers, cargo/baggage and fuel) before it cannot take off.
If a party of land whales decide to charter an aircraft and they are all double the weight of a normal person, then they will have to charter two aircraft, otherwise it will not fly (literally). As she refuses to pay for the extra weight, then the airline should fly the second aircraft for free?
If she wants to dig her grave with a knife and fork, go ahead but don’t expect the rest of the world to subsidise her (or the unfortunate person next to them to be uncomfortable with only half or less of their seat).
Land whale, well said, and a cunt to boot.
Did you see the image of this person in a bikini in that Daily Fail story? Look at the flab on her arms and legs. Oh boy.
I noticed she was using a nasal cannula while on board the plane. Is that because her obesity requires her to receive extra oxygen?
And why do they keep using this ‘plus-size’ euphemism? Why not call them what they are, which is ‘fat’?
She’s already getting a better deal than me. She pays the same price as me for a seat yet I turn up at check in with hold luggage 1kg over the 24kg limit and suddenly it becomes a threat to the plane being able to take off. A threat which fortunately can be alleviated by charging me more money.
Seats should be bigger but airline tickets should cover total weight of passenger plus luggage, how that is divvied up should be up to the individual purchasing the ticket.
Watching these land whales repurpose a baggage carousel as a treadmill to sweat off those last couple of pounds before take off would almost make it worthwhile turning up at the airport 3 hours before the flight leaves.
The weight limit on bags isn’t to do with aircraft weight. The aircraft weight is known before takeoff and fuel added accordingly.
It’s to do with the guys who have to lug the bags around and put them on the plane. Manual handling regs and recommendations to stop them getting hurt lifting too much at once.
“However, Chaney pointed out she did not know who would have to fund the cost of the changes…”
That’s easy. Everyone else who pays for a seat on a plane. Airlines won’t just write off the cost of giving extra, free, seats to a land whale. They’ll pass it on to other flyers. Like so many other ignorant, entitled groups in the world today, it’s about they learned the meaning of words such as ‘No’, and, ‘Responsibility’. I am not responsible for her being morbidly obese, she is.
Assuming she’s like the vast (no pun intended) majority of fat people, her size is the result of greed, NOT a medical condition. I’m sick of these numpties trying to convince the rest of us that being is an illness. “Pity me, it’s not my fault I can’t stop shovelling vast amounts of food into my mouth. Or that I’m too lazy to do even a small amount of exercise” Yes it is. In most cases, obesity is the result of someone not controlling their food intake. Only a very small number of people are obese due to illness. The rest of them are just greedy bastards.
This ‘personal responsibility’ thing is one of many things that piss me off about the nanny state left. They don’t believe that land whales are to blame for their own obesity. They are not responsible for becoming land whales. It is all the fault of evil ‘Big Food’. So, they want all unhealthy food to be either banned or made so expensive that it’s unaffordable for most people.
Remember that twat Jamie Oliver who lead a protest outside Downing Street a year or two ago over ‘junk food’? He was protesting because he thought ‘junk food’ was too cheap, and had to be made more expensive to prevent people with no willpower becoming land whales. Well, fuck off, Oliver. Why should those of us who are not obese but like to eat the occasional biscuit or cake have to pay more for such foods? Dickhead.
I once flew on a little regional aeroplane in mid Canada. I was working with giant of a man. Not overly fat, just in proportion. We were the only two passengers on the last leg and my pal was asked very politely if he would mind sitting at the rear of the cabin while we took off. Which he did with no fuss. Then move forward for cruise and landing.
I have found that being nice to cabin crew doing a difficult job is always worth it.
I presume providing appropriate customer service. means ‘bring pies!’
There was an incident some time ago on a central European route where a gravity challenged individual was removed/barred from a flight due to ‘encroachment’.
The individual subsequently expired at some point shortly thereafter and after the necessary hoops had been jumped througb was repatriated by the original carrier, but this time in the hold.
Of course, in the hold, you’re cargo, and charged by the kilo.
Fat slag !