Originally Posted by
leungy18
But that shouldn't change the fact that POS should be forced to pay for another seat. As I and many other FTers have noted earlier -- I paid for a seat, not half of it. POS who refuse to purchase another seat should be denied boarding.
There are two issues; I think plenty of folks agree that large passenger should not be allowed to spill over into another occupied seat, and should be re-seated.
How the airline handles re-seating them -- where, when and whether they charge for it -- really isn't anyone's business but the larger passenger's and the airline's, and I'm not sure the Southwest model is the best one (especially given that other airlines in theory follow it, but enforce it so rarely as to have no predictability for larger passengers.)