Originally Posted by
Less Hair
In the old days check-in staff would scan the passengers for the fittest exit row candidates. Kiosks have lost this capability so the obese and broken leg crowd moved in.
When I was younger,slimmer,fitter etc etc I quite often was offered an exit seat,or once (on Meridiana) the 'Security Seat' - which was very nice for flying Bologna to Sicily
Alitalia went on strike and the originally booked Gatwick to Sicily eventually became Lauda Air (Cessna Citation ?) to Bologna and then the next day Meridiana to Sicily,the return flight was more normal using a DC9
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