UA Charging Obese People for Extra Seat

[MQAAord]

For all the fatties out there bitchin' about the crap in food - there's always the organic isle. There's also healthier oils, butter substitutes, salt substitutes, etc. Heck, fake cheese tastes pretty good. Dairy = bad for you!!! Even you beanpoles, dairy=bad. At least go organic!

Oh good grief, dairy products, as a whole, should NOT be written off with a generic blanket statement of "They're bad for you!"

Dairy, like anything else, IS bad in large quantities.

Take it easy on the butter, whole milk, cheese. But you don't have to eliminate it! Milk, cheese, yogurt provide calcium. I do NOT think one needs to chow on only dairy items at every meal, or put a stick of butter into every meal. Let's use a little common sense, and use dairy sparingly, but we don't have to NOT eat it at all.

 

[contactground.9]

For all the fatties out there bitchin' about the crap in food - there's always the organic isle. There's also healthier oils, butter substitutes, salt substitutes, etc. Heck, fake cheese tastes pretty good. Dairy = bad for you!!! Even you beanpoles, dairy=bad. At least go organic!

There are no studies that difinitively prove organic foods to have any more or less nutritional value than non-organic foods.

 

[400A]

For all the fatties out there bitchin' about the crap in food - there's always the organic isle. There's also healthier oils, butter substitutes, salt substitutes, etc. Heck, fake cheese tastes pretty good. Dairy = bad for you!!! Even you beanpoles, dairy=bad. At least go organic!

This fatty goes through a gallon of milk every 48 hours. I should be dead by your logic?? :banghead:

 

[SpiceWeasel]

This fatty goes through a gallon of milk every 48 hours. I should be dead by your logic?? :banghead:

lol. Only if you want to be. :crazy:

 

[tonyw]

But that's just it: the airlines aren't selling an item, they're selling a service. That service happens to be point-to-point transportation of a person, period.

You didn't read the terms and conditions, did you?

Perhaps in the future, when you criticize someone's logic and reasoning, you'll actually read the terms and conditions associated with that service.

Pullup posted them. Now after reading them, try your reasoning again. Doesn't work so well, does it?

 

[mtsu_av8er]

I want a 30% discount for being scrawny. Fair's fair.

I agree with you . . . how much media attention do you think you'd get, though? Probably not near enough.

 

[flyboywbl]

How do employers deal with overweight pilot's and crew? Do they have in the job description that the perspective employee must be able to fit in the cockpit? I know equal opportunity does not allow you to discriminate on sex, race, religion. Some times you just have to though. I'm sure part of the job description for a minister is that you need to be christian. If you have a job in a small space, you probably have to be able to fit in that small space.

Is hight an issue for pilots? I'm 6'2". I just fit in a DA-20. If i were any taller it would be uncomfortable.

Reason i ask is there are some really big BIG guys at my flight school. I'm crammed into the corner of the DA-20 when flying with them. They are all want to be airline pilots. Is there a diet in their future?

I went and lost 40 pounds after i got my CFI because i knew i would have to if i wanted to teach in the DA-20's. I did all my private and instrument training in the DA-40 and DA-42 but not that many people do that. I would be kind of limited as a CFI if i could only do private students in the DA-40.

thanks
-Matt

 

[TUCKnTRUCK]

I believe ATP rejected a student based on size at one point, but if you can not fit in the cockpit, then you would not be physically qualified to take that flight... For us that's part of the signed statement on the release. At 6'2 you wouldn't have an issue

 

[flyboywbl]

I believe ATP rejected a student based on size at one point, but if you can not fit in the cockpit, then you would not be physically qualified to take that flight... For us that's part of the signed statement on the release. At 6'2 you wouldn't have an issue

Well thats good to know. I can lose weight no problem but it's a little hard to shed vertical inches .

Now that i think about it, on every flight i've ever been on (airliner) i don't think i've never seen an overweight captain or FO.

 

[trafficinsight]

Well thats good to know. I can lose weight no problem but it's a little hard to shed vertical inches .

Now that i think about it, on every flight i've ever been on (airliner) i don't think i've never seen an overweight captain or FO.

All three times?

 

[flyboywbl]

are you saying there are a lot of them out there? I probably fly commercially 3-5 times a year. All i fly is Northwest. Maybe they make their pilots work out more.

 

[Bandit_Driver]

NetJets says that you have to be able to safely operate the controls of the aircraft and aircraft assignments are based on seniority not size.

I have seen a lot of overweight pilots and I am one of them at 6-3 and 330. I am probably at the larger end of pilots but I have seen a few bigger. Starting out in the industry was hard for me because I couldn't comfortably fly the Lear 20 series aircraft. Also I had to instruct in the 172's or larger aircraft since I couldn't safely fly the 150/152's.