Originally Posted by SirDomino

I just have a friend of mine call me and say that he was going to the philipines and they are both relatively large (around 400 lbs a person) but they can fit in a standard seat. Unfortunately the airline (Northwest) refused to sell them a ticket unless they bought an extra seat between the two of them to compensate for their largeness. So now they are flyign on a 747-400 to Manila and they will have 3 seats between the both of them, which will be nice, but they do fit in a normal seat, although tightly, as they do need seatbelt extensions.

Can they legally do this? They were kind of upset about it, as they refused to allow them to buy a ticket unless they bought an extra one, the extra ticket was close to $1300.00 more!! is there any way for them to tell the airline to refund it? They were joking about taking a picture of them in the seat without using hte extra seat and sending it to the airline for reimbursement, which I am not sure will work.

Thanks! Would love to hear your thoughts on this.