Originally Posted by climbermom
If all the FFs take a firm stand on this issue, then perhaps the airlines will require the COS to buy a second seat.
Agreed. Instead of them (and the rest of the airline ground crew) taking responsibility for it, they throw it in the passengers lap to deal with it.
My g/f and I watch Airline and get into fights all the time over what constitutes a COS/POS (she used to be heavier so sort of sympathizes with them). However we both agree that if you need to have the armrest up, you basically disqualify yourself. We may not be able to do anything about people who flow over the top of an armrest into a neighboring seat, but we can definitely defend our waist area by keeping the armrest down. I would be absolutely p*ssed off if any airline representative told me I needed to raise my armrest (basically opening my space to them) to accomodate someone else.
Jeff