{"id":2962,"date":"2008-12-05T10:59:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T15:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2008-12-05T10:59:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T15:59:09","slug":"extremely-obese-get-two-airline-seats-for-price-of-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/extremely-obese-get-two-airline-seats-for-price-of-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Extremely Obese Get Two Airline Seats for Price of One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This news is sure to raise the ire of a few Canadian citizens. Last week, the <a title=\"canada obesity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssAirlines\/idUSN2039776920081120\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court of Canada<\/a> ruled that obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights that stay within the borders of Canada.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/obese-travellers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2966\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/obese-travellers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With airlines already feeling the <a title=\"budget diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/10-ways-to-diet-on-a-budget\/\" target=\"_self\">financial crunch<\/a> from skyrocketing fuel costs, this may add to the burden.<\/p>\n<p>No word on how the law will decide what constitutes obese enough to get the extra seat. The airlines appealed the measure, but the courts struck down their pleas.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I found on the specifics to what is referred to as the <em>One-Person-One-Fare Policy<\/em>. You qualify, if you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>are accompanied by an attendant for your personal care or safety in flight; or<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>require additional seating for yourself, including those determined to be functionally disabled by obesity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, we ask you the reader&#8230; is this legislation a fair measure? Or are people getting undue favored treatment. We open the floor to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news is sure to raise the ire of a few Canadian citizens. Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights that stay within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/extremely-obese-get-two-airline-seats-for-price-of-one\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687],"tags":[1477,437,31,92],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","tag-airlines","tag-canada","tag-health-news","tag-obesity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3233,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions\/3233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}