Airlines forcing Obese people to purchase two seats

PARIS (Reuters) – Air France KLM denied media reports on Wednesday that it planned an extra charge for overweight passengers if they were unable to fit into a single seat.
Instead, the national carrier said that from Feb 1. overweight passengers who had freely chosen to buy an extra seat for comfort would get their money back on flights that were not fully booked.
"Contrary to reports in the press this morning, Air
France is not planning to force corpulent passengers to pay for a second seat," the statement said.
Air France said that since 2005 it had offered overweight passengers an option to buy a second seat at a 25 percent discount.
"It is not an obligation; we suggest to such passengers they buy a second seat for their own comfort and in order to be sure the seats are adapted to their needs. If the plane is not full, they can get a refund," Air France spokesman Jean-Pierre Lefebvre said.
Several newspapers had reported that obese passengers flying Air France-KLM would have to pay 75 per cent of the cost of a second seat on top of the full price for the first seat, and that the measure was introduced for safety reasons.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon, editing by Will Waterman)

I am 100% for any airline making the overweight passenger pay for a second seat and it’s about time because there’s been too many flights I’ve been on when I’m stuck in the middle seat on a packed flight between Rosie O’Donnell and the mother from What’s eating Gilbert Grape and all I can smell is fried chicken seeping from their pours and them sounding like they need an oxygen tank to breathe. So I’m glad 2010 has kicked off on the right foot because if you can’t fit in the seat should you really be flying?