It's time airlines introduced an obeseness class cabin on 'planes.

Mayday Airways Introducing our all new Obeseness Class dedicated to serving the needs of the hungrier traveller. Fly in comfort and style with plenty of space to eat, drink, relax - and eat and drink some more. Onboard amenities> Commodious double-width, triple-reinforced seats that can accommodate all but the most corpulent of derrières. > Complimentary amenity kit including a family-sized pack of moistened tissues, industrial-strength mouthwash and weapons-grade deodorant. Meals and beverages > Our super-sized onboard meals are tipped into seatback troughs with beer and sodas decanted in wholesale quantities into buckets to ensure that even the most gluttonous passengers’ appetites are satisfied. > Passengers feeling peckish between meals can ask for delicious hot snacks to be delivered to their seats at any time. > Passengers feeling peckish between hot snacks can raid the in-seat larder which is stocked with a wide selection of donuts, cakes, cookies, potato chips and fizzy drinks. Entertainment > More than 150 hours of cooking shows from around the world displayed on a 15.4-inch video monitor. > Complimentary copies of National Gastronomic, Feeders Digest and Men’s Fatness magazines. Airport arrival and departure > Vouchers redeemable for meals at fast food outlets in the departure lounge. > Complementary transfer by airport buggy to and from the gate, on departure and arrival, to save the effort of walking. * Hot snacks not served while the ‘Fasten Seatbelts’ sign is lit.This is a mock-up of what I believe an airline's promotional material could look like in the not-too-distant future. If you are unconvinced, please let me explain my reasoning. According to The World Health Organisation: * Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980. In 2008, more than 1.4 billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight. * Of these over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese. * More than 40 million children under the age of five were overweight in 2010. http://www.who.int... So we can see that the weight demographics of the world's population has changed a great deal over recent years and the trend is for people to become, on average, even fatter still. This is especially true in the West where demand for air travel is the greatest. Nevertheless, the size of seats in economy class has not increased in line with the average size of passengers. In fact, it has actually decreased: the standard economy class seat pitch with almost all airlines has shrunk from 33.5" to just 31.0". http://www.independenttraveler.com... Anyone that flies regularly in economy class will have experienced being squashed by an obese passenger sitting next to them. Being smothered by a huge pile of sweating blubber for hour after hour is not only unpleasant but physically dangerous too: "Virgin Atlantic has paid a woman passenger £13,000 (US$20,289) compensation, after she was squashed by an obese person who sat next to her on a transatlantic flight. Barbara Hewson...suffered injuries including a blood clot in her chest, torn leg muscles and acute sciatica and remains in pain two years on. The obese passenger had only been able to fit into her seat by raising the arm rest, which meant her body parts weighed down on Mrs Hewson. The injured woman had to be admitted to hospital in Los Angeles when the flight touched down and was bedridden for a month." http://news.bbc.co.uk... It's no wonder then, as passengers board a plane prior to take off, normal people silently chant to themselves "please don't sit next to me, please don't sit next to me" when they see an obese waddle up the aisle towards them. And the obese know that they are not popular on 'planes: and nobody wants to be loathed by complete strangers. That's why such a demand exists for obeseness class cabins. Grossly overweight passengers would choose to fly with an airline that featured such a cabin because they would have space to sit in comfort. In addition, they would not be embarrassed about their size because they would be seated with their own kind. Furthermore, normal people would choose that airline because they would know that they would have a reduced risk of being seated next to an obese. Of course, tickets in obeseness class would cost a little more than economy class tickets because the seats would occupy a larger footprint on the plane, but they would still be much cheaper than business class tickets. If we look at business class seats on Virgin Atlantic, for example, they have a pitch of 79.5" and a seat width of 22.0" (1,749 square inches) compared to 31.0" x 17.5" (542.5 square inches) in economy. However, the obese don't need the extra pitch, just the extra width, so their seats could have a pitch of 31.0" but double the width of an economy seat at 34.0" (1,054 square inches), thus obeseness class seats would occupy a much smaller footprint than business class seats, http://www.seatguru.com...In conclusion, the market conditions dictate that it's time airlines introduced an obeseness class cabin on 'planes. Thank you.