United staff 'forced frail grandma, 94, out of 2,800 Business seat into Economy for 16-hour flight

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21. I wasn't talking about you.

I knew your approximate age from your other posts.

I would like to say I would give up my seat, but that's easy to say in abstraction. One time recently, on United, I was stuck in a middle seat, between my husband and a guy who was too big to fit into his seat. The big guy was half in my seat, so that I had to sit in the other half of my seat and ended up with back pain afterwards, even though it was only a three-hour flight. If I had paid for a Business Class seat on a 16-hour flight (which would never be the case, since I never pay for a Business Class seat), and if I was tired and in a foul mood, the possibility of ending up in that sort of situation could make it very difficult to offer to voluntarily move to Economy.

The airlines should be required by law to make their seats large enough for most people to fit into them. (The person I referred to above was not enormous; he was just big.) But instead, every time this issue comes up, people attack fat people rather than criticizing the airlines for making the seats too small.