Big call ... an overweight airline passenger waits for a delayed flight at Heathrow airport. Picture: Reuters

Anger over obese passengers

By Jeanti St Clair, Travel Editor

OBESE passengers spilling over cramped airline seats is among the leading grievances of air passengers, according to a NEWS.com.au survey.

Cramped seating was the leading annoyance for 68 per cent of the 1,189 respondents to the survey, conducted by Core Data in partnership with NEWS.com.au.

Forty-eight per cent also admitted to being offended by large people spilling over the armrests and encroaching on their seating space, while 38 per cent said the behaviour of young children also annoyed them on flights.

Once on the ground, one in five Australians ranked being ripped off as their top travel annoyance while not understanding the local language is not seen as a barrier.

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I see nothing wrong with above person waiting for the plane....provided that he/she/it is traveling as freight, along with the other overweight baggaage...

Too bad..... obesity is a way of life for some unfortunate ones.

Didn't a few airlines , a few years back , start charging like a fare and a half, or double fare, for those who were of such size as to take up more than one space...?? I seem to reember that from somewhere.....