In the future, discount airlines will only give you about 23 inches of space and make you sit on seats that look like they belong at Six Flags.
The Post ran a photo today supposedly taken on an American Airlines flight of a man who appears to be about 6’9” and close to 400 lbs. sitting in an aisle seat and spilling out all over the place. What’s especially striking is that a) he was even allowed on board, and b) he wasn’t forced to buy two seats to accommodate his, ugh, girth. If I were on this flight, I’d be willing to bet a kidney that yours truly would’ve been seated next to this cat. No doubt, and with an old lady hell bent on saving souls for Jesus sitting on the other side. |New York Post|
Well here’s something to scare the beJesus out of you just as you prepare to board a flight this afternoon for a weekend away. Two Northwest Airlines pilots commanding a flight from San Diego to Minneapolis-St. Paul weren’t paying attention to what they were doing and overshot their destination considerably. Further, their failure to respond to “WTF?!” calls from air traffic controllers on the ground caused so much concern that fighter jets were enlisted to engage the aircraft in the event it’d been hijacked by dastardly terrorists. Read more »
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