Having An Extra-Wide Body Could Cost You More In United Airlines

The next time you go to buy a United Airlines ticket make sure you're not overweight, for having an extra-wide body could cost you two seats.

This is the new policy of the third-largest U.S. carrier. Flight attendants will search for passengers who can't buckle the seat belts or put their armrests down.

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United Airlines wrote on its Web site: those deemed too fat to fly "must either purchase a ticket for an additional seat, or purchase an upgrade to a cabin with seats that address the above-listed scenarios."

In case no other seats are available on that flight, the overweight flier will be grounded until two adjacent seats can be found on the next plane out.

"It's discrimination. I understand if a person takes space from another, they should pay extra. But not an entire second seat," the New York Daily News quoted Jack Gillotto, a 300-pounder from Danbury, Conn., as he waited for a flight at LaGuardia Airport, as saying.

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Juan Rivera, who goes by 'El Gordo" because he weighs 230 pounds and stands just 5-feet-2, said: "That affects me, as an overweight person. I don't feel like I should pay for being bigger."

However, United Airlines said that the rule is in response to the 700-plus complaints it received last year about obese travelers invading neighbors' space.

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United spokeswoman Robin Urbanski Janikowski said: "This will apply after all other solutions are exhausted. Should the flight be full, which is rare in today's economy ... we will offer the second seat on another flight at the same fare that was originally paid."

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