Obese passenger wins case
From "The Age"
Recently read a post about a LCC in Oz charging significantly for excess baggage. You think we'll go down this path?
Had a mate who was recalled to a C130 SQDN one Saturday to ferry a similar sized dude from regional NSW to YSSY as he couldn't fit in a regional airliner. Needless to say many "Fat Bastard" accents were put on for the flight!
Obese passenger wins case against Air France
A Frenchman who weighs 170 kilograms has won a court case against Air France after it made him buy a second seat on a flight from New Delhi to Paris, he told AFP.
Jean-Jacques Jauffret, a 43-year-old screen-writer, said he was deeply humiliated when airline staff measured his girth with wrapping tape in front of other passengers at New Delhi airport.
Air France was ordered to pay 8000 euro ($13,599.95) in damages and to reimburse the cost of his second seat, in a ruling delivered last Friday.
Returning to France from a holiday in India in August 2005, Jauffret was told that as the plane was full he could not be assured a free seat next to him. Instead he was told to buy the extra ticket.
"The court recognised the humiliation I suffered. Now Air France is going to have to say clearly what is its commercial policy. Does it carry people or kilos?" he said.