{"id":207357,"date":"2010-01-21T04:41:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T09:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1050413"},"modified":"2010-01-21T04:41:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T09:41:13","slug":"air-france-to-charge-fat-people-to-pay-double-for-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/207357","title":{"rendered":"Air France to charge fat people to pay double for seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b><font size=\"4\">Air France to charge fat people to pay double for seats<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:20px; margin-top:5px; \">\n<div class=\"smallfont\" style=\"margin-bottom:2px\">Quote:<\/div>\n<table cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"alt2\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>\nJanuary 20, 2010 09:17am<\/p>\n<p><b><i>OBESE people who are unable to squeeze into a single plane seat will have to pay nearly double to fly with Air France in future.<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nExtra-large flyers will have to pay 75 per cent of the cost of a second seat (the full price excluding tax and surcharges) on top of the full price for the first, spokeswoman Monique Matze said, <b>saying the decision was made for &quot;safety&quot; reasons.<\/b><br \/>\n<b><br \/>\n&quot;We have to make sure that the backrest can move freely up and down and that all passengers are securely fastened with a safety belt,<\/b>&quot; Ms Matze said.<\/p>\n<p>People who cannot fit into a single seat are fastened by slotting the belt tip of one seat into the plug of the next &#8211; stretching over both seats.<\/p>\n<p><b>By paying for both, the overweight passenger will be assured that two seats will be available next to each other.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>They will, however, get their money back on flights that are not fully booked, Ms Matze said.<\/p>\n<p>The new measure will apply for people who book their tickets from February 1 for all flights from April 1 this year.<\/p>\n<p>The average plane seat is 43cm wide and 44cm for long-haul flights.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>:lol:^^<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air France to charge fat people to pay double for seats Quote: January 20, 2010 09:17am OBESE people who are unable to squeeze into a single plane seat will have to pay nearly double to fly with Air France in future. Extra-large flyers will have to pay 75 per cent of the cost of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}