Normal passengers should not be forced to subsidise passengers of size

Ill give this a shot. I looked into the airline policies regarding fat people getting free upgrades and I found a whole lot of nothing....... airline policies do not explicitly state that fat people are eligible for free upgrades to first class at the expense of everyone else. In fact many many airlines almost routinely force people to buy extra seats if they are even ALLOWED to stay on the airplane in the first place. Southwest, United, and Air France are a few airlines who have kicked fat people off of planes because they were too fat. But for the sake of the debate, lets look at it this way. The Pro believes that fat people getting free upgrades to first class is unethical to everyone else under any and all circumstances.... I will simply offer evidence of why it is not unethical. It cannot easily be proven just how many times that fat people have gotten free upgrades from coach to first class. Does that mean it never happens? No..... Im sure it does happen once in a while........ However if it does happen if but there's no actual policy legalizing it, then we can all assume that such instances do not occur on airlines all that often..... If airlines do not have a policy legalizing it then why does it happen on airlines? the answer is courtesy. If the airlines want to take action that may make someone feel more comfortable on an airplane flight and they reason to do it then why make it illegal? It is simply respect for people who have different conditions then the rest of us and it increases how much they struggle with everyday hassles that the rest of us skinny people can handle, then why should airlines BAN it? Being fat in this case could be argued as people who have a disability, and those people are being banned from receiving special treatment on public transportation. Letting fat people upgrade from a seat in coach to first class is much like allowing an elderly woman on a bus to have a seat while a normal person has to stand up. But just because the woman is elderly does that mean her receiving special treatment should also be illegal? You then claim that people are being forced to subsidize fat people getting upgrades to first class for free, but is that really true? an airline ticket is an airline ticket, the only person who is really paying for the upgrade is the person who was sitting in first class, that is IF anyone was sitting in the seat given to the fat person, in that case it is the airline footing the bill and no one else. But you know what, why not, Ill entertain your idea that people have to pay for fat people to upgrade to first class. Even though its not true lets entertain the idea. First class ticket cost - original coach class ticket cost = depends on the flight, lets say its from Miami to New York on American Airlines First class ticket ($571) - original coach ticket ($114) = $457 http://www.onetravel.com... Average American Airlines airplanes im guessing carries a 100 people, so 457 divided by 100 seats means that the subsidized cost you believe exists per passenger equals $4.57...... Seems reasonable enough to me, especially since it doesnt happen all that often and when it does it only occurs once. Consider the alternatives though, if people shouldnt pay for fat people to upgrade to first class (which they dont), and it should be illegal for airlines to show courtesy and caring for some fat people, what else could they do to make their flight more tolerable? They could expand the size of each seat on each airplane in every airline to make a few fat people enjoy their experience more..... but that would cost billions and billions of dollars to refit each and every plane in the world and that would surely cost people to pay for the airlines to carry out these renovations, and I have a hunch it would cost a lot more then $4.57..... Allow me to summarize at this point, Airlines should allow fat people to upgrade to first class because 1) It is just courtesy, much like allowing old ladies to have a seat on the bus, and outlawing it would be immoral 2) It is up to flight attendants to decide if someone should be upgraded, not the airline policy makers 3) It does not affect everybody on the plane, it only affects the one person who is losing the first class seat to the fat person 4) The fat person has a very legitimate excuse for needing the first class seat 5) There may not even BE a person in that first class seat, so allowing the upgrade to occur would only be a cost towards the airline 6) The alleged "cost" of each person (allegedly) being (forced) to "subsidize" fat people's upgrade to first class would be marginal, close to $5 unless its a ridiculously long distance flight 7) The alternative to making fat people enjoy their flight more without letting them upgrade to first class would be to upgrade the size of every seat on every plane in the world, which would cost billions, maybe a couple trillion