First of all, what qualifies a ticket-counter person to make a judgment call for who's going to fly based on their size?" he asked, adding that with a formal policy being enforced, agents who used to use good judgment to accommodate large passengers without a fuss on undersold planes will now be more vigilant about insisting on the purchase of the extra seat.
I was lucky enough to qualify for tickets, and the show was amazing.
"Once you get arrested three times, you don't qualify for tickets, you go straight to the precinct and from there you go straight through the system," he told me.
For an extra £17, you can have access to the track for Thursday practice and Saturday qualifying, with the ticket allowing you access to roving grandstand seats.
To qualify for a ticket, people must have a body mass index of 30 or more.
The 9th Circuit said that selling a ticket qualifies as commercial activity.
These are the travelers for whom frequent-flier miles are a currency often valued more for their potential to turn a cheap coach seat into a first-class upgrade than for their worth in qualifying for a free ticket.
Mr. Petersen also pointed out that travelers who need only 500 to 1,000 miles to qualify for a free ticket should look for other ways to narrow the gap, such as redeeming their award ticket online.
With Delta, on the other hand, a passenger who wants to upgrade in only one direction would still have to pay for the higher round-trip ticket to qualify for the one-way upgrade (though he or she would use only 25,000 miles).
The airline said the fee would apply only to travelers who qualify for an electronic ticket and who book trips on American or American Eagle, its regional airline subsidiary, using American's Web site, its phone reservations department, its city ticket offices or its airport counters.
