Anyone else ever experience this? I have. Very uncomfortable and very frustrating when the person next to you takes up a third of your seat as well.
For a while, the airlines were talking about charging customers based on their excess weight; or if they can’t fit in a single seatbelt (have you seen the seatbelt extenders?), then they pay for two seats.
An Australian man is suing American Airlines for AU$100,000 (US$74,080) after being forced to sit next to “grossly obese” passengers on a long-haul flight. He claims he was forced to contort his body into positions which aggravated an existing back problem.