Jay Honeck writes:

Nothing against fat people -- some of my best friends are overweight --
but when we are all inside the "executive mail tube", the old saying
"Your right to swing your fist stops where my nose begins" truly *does*
apply. And the airlines are the folks who should be addressing the
problem, rather than trying to pretend that it doesn't exist.

The airlines are damned if they do and damned if they don't. No
matter what they do, someone will complain.

I think that there are more people of normal weight who are irritated
by the lardballs than there are lardballs who are irritated by
airlines making them pay for being overweight, but perhaps not. I
hear that there are more and more fat Americans; perhaps eventually
the lardballs will be the majority.

I do wonder about the effect that such things have on weight and
balance calculations. With many lardballs on board the weight goes
up.

Maybe the solution is to weigh each passenger at check-in, like the
old days.

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