Fat acceptance

United and Southwest charge obese passengers for two seats if they can’t sit in a single seat without spillover.

"We're willing to pay for what we are rightfully using," Peggy Howell, spokeswoman for the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, told Scott McCartney of the Wall Street Journal.

If it happens that the obese flier is adjacent to an otherwise empty seat, there’s no extra charge. More than 97 percent of obese fliers who buy a second seat end up with a refund for that reason, McCartney writes.

Meanwhile, I’m interested in the existence of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.

According to their site, it is an organization founded in 1969 that is dedicated to “improving the quality of life for fat people.”

Comments

Adam Hirsch said…
Have you read Dan Savage's "Skipping Towards Gomorrah?" He goes to an NAAFA convention. It's pretty incredible.
June 10, 2009
dl004d said…
I bet the food was great there!
June 11, 2009
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