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楼主  发表于: 2009-04-16   

聯航新規:機艙滿員 肥胖乘客須買兩張票 ZT

http://news.sina.com 2009年04月16日 07:04 星島日報

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  全美第三大航空公司聯合航空公司(United Airlines)15日宣布,肥胖乘客在飛機滿員和其他乘客投訴的情況下,須購買第二張機票。目前全國已有8家航空公司採取這一政策,包括大陸、達美、天藍和西南航空公司等。

  彭博通訊社15日報導,聯航發言人厄本斯奇周三表示:「去年我們共接到700宗投訴,一些乘客在飛機客滿時不得不與身旁的胖子擠坐在一起。」

  根據新規定,如果飛機上有其他空位,肥胖乘客仍可享受重新安置和一張機票待遇。但如果飛機客滿,他們必須按原價購買第二張機票。如果該乘客決定取消航班,機票錢將會全額退還。肥胖乘客是指,落座後,座位把手無法放到正常位置和無法扣緊安全帶的乘客。

  聯航今年1月決定採納新政策,並從4月15日起實施。

  大陸航空公司的政策與聯航類似。世界最大航空公司達美則按照最低票價標準向肥胖乘客出售第二張機票。西南航空公司早在1980年就實行相似規定,並在飛機有空位情況下向乘客退還第二張機票的票款,該公司發言人稱,購買額外機票的乘客數量不足總數的2%。

  美國疾病防控中心稱,約34%的美國人身材肥胖,比30年前翻了一番。全國只有科羅拉多州的肥胖率低于20%。官方根據身體質量指數(body mass index)來定義肥胖,身高體重比超過30的都屬胖子。

  佛州非牟利組織肥胖行動聯盟的發言人澤沃斯則不滿地宣稱,胖子總是背負罵名,飛機座席完全有能力利用幾吋的額外空間,滿足不同體型乘客的需要。


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6楼  发表于: 2009-04-16   
哇。。。。。 葱白卡总恁。。。。。。
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5楼  发表于: 2009-04-16   
我在联航上找到了这一规则。
http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6722,52985,00.html
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”  -----  Henry David Thoreau
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地下室  发表于: 2009-04-16   
United Airlines to charge overweight passengers for two seats

By Edgar Sandoval and Corky Siemaszko
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Updated Wednesday, April 15th 2009, 1:10 PM


So much for jumbo jets.

From now on, United Airlines passengers with extra-wide bodies will have to pay for an extra seat - if they want to fly the friendly skies.

Flight attendants will be on the lookout for portly passengers who can't buckle the seat belts or put their arm rests down.

Those deemed too fat to fly "must either purchase a ticket for an additional seat, or purchase an upgrade to a cabin with seats that address the above-listed scenarios," United Airlines wrote on its Web site.

If no other seats are available on that flight, the hefty flier will be grounded until two adjacent seats can be found on the next plane out.

"It's discrimination," said Jack Gillotto, a 300-pounder from Danbury, Conn., as he waited for a flight at LaGuardia Airport.

"I understand if a person takes space from another, they should pay extra," said Gillotto, 48. "But not an entire second seat."

Maria Garcia, flying home to California from LaGuardia, said United is picking on full-figured fliers like herself.

"They are taking money away from us," said Garcia, 31. "It's bad as it is for the economy."

Juan Rivera, who goes by "El Gordo" because he weighs 230 pounds and stands just 5-feet-2, said, "That affects me, as an overweight person.

"I don't feel like I should pay for being bigger," said Rivera, 45, of the Bronx.

United insisted it was simply acting on the 700-plus complaints it received last year about obese travelers "infringing" on their neighbors' space.

"This will apply after all other solutions are exhausted," United spokeswoman Robin Urbanski Janikowski said. "Should the flight be full, which is rare in today's economy ... we will offer the second seat on another flight at the same fare that was originally paid."

Fat fliers are a growing problem for U.S. airlines at a time when space is at a premium, travel is expensive and 34% of Americans are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Eight other U.S. airlines - including Delta and Southwest - have similar seating policies requiring extra-large passengers to "purchase a second seat" if they can't fit into one, Urbanski Janikowski said.

Karl Shen, who weighs 250 pounds and flies frequently to Florida on business, said it was just a matter of time before the airlines cracked down on fliers like himself.

In years past, Shen said flight attendants would offer him an extra seat for free out of courtesy - if not sympathy. "They could see the seats were too small for me," said Shen, 47, of Brooklyn.

Now, if he has to, Shen said he's ready to fork out more "to be comfortable."

"By the time I get off the plane, it's very painful," he said.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/04/15/2009-04-15_united_airlines_to_charge_overweight_passenger_for_two_seats.html
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”  -----  Henry David Thoreau
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地板  发表于: 2009-04-16   
卡总,我新浪上转的。。。。 。应该不会是假的吧。。。。
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板凳  发表于: 2009-04-16   
这是不是愚人节新闻啊?我想不会吧。
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”  -----  Henry David Thoreau
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沙发  发表于: 2009-04-16   
吼吼。。。 看来超重的人前景实在不太看好。。。。
很报歉, 我因为基本不用 “好友” 功能, 又不想引起误会, 所以把所有的 existing  好友都删了。 如果有事, 请短信我, 谢谢。
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