Emirates Airlines loves to provide seat belt extensions for passengers. This may be good for one passenger but not good for the others sharing the row.

My wife and I were flying back from Auckland to Dubai on Thai with a change of planes in BKK. Unfortunately I did not notice that the change was to a code-shared Emirates 777 with a 3-4-3 configuration. Normal is 3-3-3 but Emirates loves to jam most of their smaller foreign workers into small seats in cattle. So the seats were uncomfortably narrow to begin with.

Bad Enough - but then comes a standby passenger - who required TWO seatbelt extensions!!!!! Must have weighed 400+ pounds. The aisle seat next to us was given to him and I was amazed to discover how much movement there can be in the armrest.

My 7+ hour flight from BKK to DXB was almost the worst flight ever - crushed into a half seat after a 10 hour flight from AUK. The FA then offered me her jump seat if I didn't like being in a 12" seat.

That was my LAST paid flight on EK. I still have no idea why some people like EK as their Y seating verges on Monarch dimensions.

Canadian law requires Canadian Airlines to provide (for free) a double-seat for anyone who cannot fit into a single seat. That should be a requirement for the sake of the other passengers considering that seats continue to become narrower as more passengers are forced into smaller spaces.

A possible solution consistent with other new airline policies would be to charge by weight. We now pay a huge premium for overweight bags. This could be extended. Flight costs are based on flight loading (weight) so the lighter the passenger the lower the cost of transporting him/her. My wife is a wisp of a thing so should get a refund. If I had to pay by weight to fly then I would surely lose some of those "I'm gonna lose weight" pounds that I should have shed years ago.

Seating in J class is a zero-sum game. Some consideration should also be given to the other passengers sharing the space.