[nagdu] Air Charters and the extra seat

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Dar and listers,

    I'll make a confession but please hear me out before opening fire. 
Recall from my message on the Southwest COS Policy that they had this in 
place since 2002 but weren't diligent about enforcing it until recently. As 
recently as last year we flew on Southwest three times. No one insisted that 
I purchess an extra seat leaving me to think that if the flight wasn't full 
they figured I'd need the extra room for Johnny so why bother me about it. 
This mislead me to believe that since I was traveling with Johnny. Although 
I was a large passenger it wouldn't be a big deal. Nothing would be said and 
we'd be on our way to Detroit without incident. How very wrong I was! Even 
after all of this I could fly on Southwest again having only purchessed a 
single seat and it would be smooth sailing without any talk about needing to 
buy a second seat. This business is scary, and unpredictable again not 
unlike the treatment blind air travelers occasionally receive from airline 
personnel.

    Still worse some airlines don't post their customer of size policy 
anywhere and large passengers have no way of knowing they need to purchess 
an extra seat or fly in first class. Delta is one such carrier. The question 
then becomes, "How do you know you need to purchess a second seat if you're 
a large passenger if the airline itself doesn't post such information for 
its customers to read and abide by?" Hopefully this matter will be addressed 
in the Passenger's Bill of Rights legislation that is being resurrected due 
to recent airline flubs. I sure hope it is!

Peter Donahue


 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "d m gina" <dmgina at samobile.net>
To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Air Charters and the extra seat


When you are large, and know it?
Then one must prepare for paying the price of the second seat correct?
this wasn't a surprise to Peter was it?
Is this the first time this has happened?
I ask with all of the flying many do, how do you get ready for such a 
surprise.
What if you didn't have the money for the second seat?
Do you stay in the air port until you get the money?
Just some thoughts.

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