Sentence examples for overweight passenger from inspiring English sources

A patient overweight passenger, required to buy two seats because of his size, ends up waiting 10 hours for a flight home.

Yet seconds later we are into the realm of low comedy as we picture Mr Slocum shunting his overweight passenger into his car and announcing: "I'm as stiff as yourself".

Mr O'Leary once called its overweight passengers "fat bastards on board".

That definitely sounds like a medical condition.So far, airlines have decided for themselves how to treat overweight passengers.

Air Canada and other airlines with policies that say obesity is a medical condition are taking a financial hit for every extra seat they give to overweight passengers.

Many American airlines ask overweight passengers to buy extra seats or wait for the next flight if they can't be accommodated.

Periodically, there are news reports of passengers complaining that grossly overweight passengers encroached on their limited personal space on crowded flights, and should be required to buy an extra seat.

The Irish businessman himself is not known for his restraint, describing customers who forget to print their own boarding passes as "idiots" and calling overweight passengers "fat bastards on board".

There aren't many times when the airline industry deserves public sympathy, but the current flap over whether and how to deal with overweight passengers is a no-win situation.

But employers and health insurance providers looking to blunt the impact of obesity on the U.S. economy will soon learn what airlines learned when they tried to make overweight passengers buy two seats: It won't fly.

The idea already has people concerned that relegating "overweight" passengers to a designated bench wouldn't be the most sensitive thing to do, and we agree.