No business class for fat people

Pauliedragon wrote: »

If they cant sit in business class due to air bags in the seats fair enough. They should be asking peoples weight when they book so which would stop the confusion.

It seems to be waist size, not weight.

Passengers with waists measuring more than 56 inches are therefore excluded from flying in business class.

I'm a big guy, but I've never had any issue with this sort of thing in the handful of times I've flown business class, nor even heard of it happening. Seems like shoddy design. I suspect the staff have measured these women's bellies and not around their hips where the belts would fit just fine. Or maybe they're really that big - hard to judge from a photo. In any case, they might have handled it a little more delicately.

I didn't realise business class came with airbags? I thought it was about luxury not safety!

I'm kind of surprised if they were that size they could fit in economy?

mikhail wrote: »

It seems to be waist size, not weight.

I'm a big guy, but I've never had any issue with this sort of thing in the handful of times I've flown business class, nor even heard of it happening. Seems like shoddy design. I suspect the staff have measured these women's bellies and not around their hips where the belts would fit just fine. Or maybe they're really that big - hard to judge from a photo. In any case, they might have handled it a little more delicately.

Fair enough the point still stands. If there's waist/weight/height whatever restrictions it should be communicated at the booking process so there's no mix ups at the airport.

56 inch waist is a good bit past being a bit tubby.

Surely “morbidly obese” would be more accurate than “plus size” as the article headline states

I have to pay 100 extra each way when flying to the states because I'm 6'6 and don't fit into a standard seat. Not my fault, I didn't eat my way to this length. And if I don't book extra leg room you can be guaranteed some short arse is top of the queue at check in for extra legroom.

Yet fat people think they're discriminated against for making themselves too big? Hilarious.

So business class seats have airbags but economy obviously doesn't. Talk about the definition of a class system. This is the Titanic all over again.

Articles from 2018
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1429599/thai-defends-bulging-waistline-ban-on-dreamliners

https://onemileatatime.com/thai-airways-sets-passenger-size-limit-for-new-business-class-seat/

IAMAMORON wrote: »

It never bothered Andre.

Try telling a 7f 4in, 35 stone, full of of 100 beers plus bloke he's not getting on the plane.:P

Joshua Some Warehouse wrote: »

Why are women called plus size when men are called fat / overweight ?

No such thing as a plus size in men. Just lots of Xs!

odyssey06 wrote: »

There's not enough room for big people AND an airbag.
I'm still trying to figure out what the airbag is for.

Maybe if the plane is rear-ended by another plane at a red light it might prevent whiplash...

An economy seat will be designed so that when hit by the passenger behind in a crash, it will deflect and absorb some of the impact energy.

Business class seat's are often enclosed by solid dividing walls, electric seats which don't move when hit from behind, larger TV's and more bulkheads than would be the case in economy.

Newer crash ratings are more stringent, so seat manufacturers had to include airbags.

They wouldn't help in a catastrophic crash, but might just be enough to keep you conscious in a very hard landing.

Kevin Irving wrote: »

An economy seat will be designed so that when hit by the passenger behind in a crash, it will deflect and absorb some of the impact energy.
Business class seat's are often enclosed by solid dividing walls, electric seats which don't move when hit from behind, larger TV's and more bulkheads than would be the case in economy.
Newer crash ratings are more stringent, so seat manufacturers had to include airbags.
They wouldn't help in a catastrophic crash, but might just be enough to keep you conscious in a very hard landing.

This is AH. We're not looking for valid explanations - and as helpful and informative as your post has been, I have to mark it as "try harder"

Enter name here wrote: »

This is why we need a special seating area in the cargo hold for some passengers. Nothing more i enjoy than flying next to someone who should pay for 2 seats and sharing mine with them.

When flying short-haul Ryanair we always sit 1A, 1B.

Some fat loon managed to blag (or just saw) 1C free (he didn't pay for it, as he was laughing and boasting to his friends some seats behind). The result of this was himself overlapping onto 1B.

Had to complain to the crew that this was a fcuking joke that after paying for a seat, we can't even use it. Turns out he couldn't get the belt fastened so he was sent to the back of the plane (when he asked for the extender, the crew advised that he was too large to sit in an exit row).

Relief.

Hammer89 wrote: »

You've some hearing.

I suggest you look at a seat map for a Boeing 737.

Here's a hint "We were sitting in 1A / 1B and the big fella was sitting in 1C"

That is a disgusting way to treat customers.

The 787 has airbags in their business class belts (It confused the heck out of me the first time I used them).

Depends on the airline.

The Business Class seats in most B787 aircraft are at an angle to the nose/tail axis of the aircraft, therefore in the event of an incident the passenger will have side loads exerted on them as well as fore/aft loads, because of this, the seats are fitted with a lap strap seat belt and a shoulder harness, kinda like your car. Thai has taken this design a step further by adding an air cushion in the shoulder strap. Like all designs, it comes with specific design criteria and it appears that waist size is one of these criteria.

The economy seats don't have shoulder straps hence the ability to seat larger people there.

Could the airline have handled this better, hell yes, but this is Thailand we are talking about.