A funny thing happened…..

 

Peter read me out a newspaper article. It was about an airline that made overweight people pay for two seats. If they weighed more than about 140kg, then they had to buy and pay for two seats.

Because this man was big, the airline made him pay for two seats. But the two seats were not together. One was in a different row and on the other side of the plane. He paid for two, used one and could not use the other. Here is the article from http://www.news.comhttp://www.news.com.au/travel/

 “BEFORE he boarded the plane, 37-stone Les Price had already been forced to pay for an extra ticket.

The airline's rules for passengers weighing more than 20 stone required him to buy two seats for himself.

But when he got on board, insult was added to injury. For a dismayed Mr Price found his seats for the flight to Ireland were not even next to each other - they were either side of another traveller's seat.

And on his return journey the situation was even more farcical, with his allocated places two rows apart.

Mr Price, 43, had booked his tickets in advance of the flight. But he said the unnamed airline's employees did not seem to understand its policy on heavier passengers.

"When I got to the airport I had to explain to all the staff why I had two tickets," he said yesterday. "They didn't have a clue. When I finally got on the plane one was an aisle seat and the other was by the window - in a three-seat row. On the way back from Ireland one seat was in row 17 and the other in row 19."

It’s a funny old world.