In this excerpt from You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People, Aubrey Gordon outlines the challenges of flying while fat.
go one step further, disclosing neither their seat measurements nor their policies for removing fat passengers from flights.Airlines outside the US have a similarly mixed bag of policies. Recently, in trying to find a flight for a work trip to Ireland, I found most airlines do not publish their policies for the seating and treatment of fat passengers. The customer-service employees of three different international airlines couldn’t tell me if they had a policy, which likely means they don’t.
Notably, Canada’s airline policies offer a bright spot. In 2008, Canadian courts ordered airlines to let fat and disabled travelers fly for the price of one ticket. Airlines claimed the cost would be untenable, but the Council of Canadians with Disabilities found that it would cost the nation’s largest air carriers less than one Canadian dollar per ticket.
Airline policies vary widely from carrier to carrier, country to country, but all of them have one thing in common: They prioritize the comfort and preferences of thin people over the needs and dignity of fat people. Thin passengers complaining is a frequent trigger for fat passengers being escorted from the plane, away from the disapproving gaze of thin passengers. Those complaints are sometimes lodged without recognition of the power the instigators hold.
, allowing for additional rows of cramped seats, and more tickets sold on each flight. Still, when thin people are uncomfortable on a flight, instead of leveling their frustration at the manufacturers who built such small, uncomfortable seats or the airlines that oversell flights, they aim at the easiest target: the fat person sitting next to them.
Many of us readily blame fat people for the fate that befalls them, never reckoning with the ways at which our bodies are excluded and ignored. As it stands, most public spaces are built for a minority of bodies — bodies that are thin and nondisabled, as well as bodies that are white, cis, straight, and otherwise on the upside of power.
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