Obesity people must not pay two on plane

PARIS, KOMPAS.com - Airline Air France-KLM, Wednesday, denied the report that states the company will charge passengers extra for super-fat if they do not fit in one seat.

Instead, the company states began February 1, money that overweight passengers who have freely chosen to pay an extra seat for comfort will be refunded if the plane is not full. "Contrary to press reports, Air France does not plan to force the fat-bodied passengers who pay the second chair," the company said in a statement.

Air France said that since 2005 the company had offered to overweight passengers the option of paying the second seat with 25 percent discounts. "That's not a requirement. We suggest that overweight passengers pay for their second seat for their own convenience and to ensure that all the seats adjusted to their needs. If the plane is not full, their money will be refunded," said a spokesman for Air France, Jean-Pierre Lefebvre.

Some newspapers have reported that obese passengers and fly with Air France-KLM had to pay 75 percent of the cost of a second chair and such action is imposed for safety reasons.

Southwest Airlines and United Airlines have a policy, to those "whose size is more" need to pay a second chair and can claim a refund if the plane was not full. The policy was imposed following a complaint from the passengers on the passenger side of a very fat.

In 2006, Air France was sued by a passenger after the airline told the passengers that he was too big to fill one seat and must pay an additional seat if he wanted to fly from New Delhi to Paris. The passenger, who demanded the reason he was very insulted by that conditions because it is measured in the open at the airport, won in the case.