Originally Posted by
Boraxo
She could have taken a train to Germany (or driven as others have suggested) if she felt the medical care in Hungary wasn't of sufficiently high standard. My guess is she could have fit into F but was too cheap to pay for it. And paid the ultimate price. Now to be fair Euro Business class is often just a row of coach with the middle seat blocked off. But there are still bulkheads.
If you can't fit into a bulkhead with the arms up then you probably shouldn't be flying. Just as some mentally ill people should not fly. It is not for everyone. No reason to sue the airline.
If you take a look at her picture (posted earlier in this thread), you'll see she couldn't possibly have fit into a first-class seat. She apparently gained more than 60 pounds of weight (mostly edema fluid due to her bad kidney function) during her month-long stay in Hungary, and weighed more than 500 lbs at he time she was trying to return home; apparently she barely fit through the main cabin door, and was too big to be moved down the aisle. She needed to be on a cargo plane or a dedicated air ambulance, not a commercial passenger flight.
Everyone on this thread has agreed that the couple should have sought out medical care in Europe until a way could be worked out to return the lady home to NYC, and that the airline isn't at fault. But the husband is grieving, and anger is often part of the grief process. So I'm not surprised he's made the airline a scapegoat for his wife's death, and that he's suing. I'd be surprised if the suit isn't tossed out fairly quickly.