Thanks to Federal Airline Administration requirements, you might have no middle seat weirdo hogging half the armrests on your next United Airlines flight.
Due to a 2019 FAA update of weight averages for travelers, United is nixing three to six middle-seat passengers in 45 of its Boeing 757 aircraft between November 1, 2022, and April 30, 2023.
It’s not just the ever-increasing size of the American waistline that’s the problem; we’re also loaded up with heavier carry-on bags. Airlines must also increase the average weight of male passengers (which concludes thier carry-on items) from 185 to 200 pounds in summer months, and from 190 pounds to 205 pounds in winter months. Starting next week, there will be a red sleeve over the seatbelt that says “Seat inoperative – Do not occupy.” The seatbelt will also be zip-tied together.
Despite 'awareness campaigns' that have been running on and off since the 1980s, America’s obesity rate has continued its slow, labored climb in the population.
Rates shot up over 10 percent in the first two decades this century, from 30.5 percent of adults in 1999 to 41.9 percent in 2020. Kids and teens are now particularly susceptible to becoming unhealthily overweight. The covid lockdowns probably added a good amount of tonnage as well.
Maybe they should all just back the fuckin' chair away from the buffet table, huh? juss' sayin'...
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So the government is controlling seat width?
ReplyDeleteHow 'bout me, 6'6", flying with my feet in my mouth?