And no insult implied, tooldummy. I merely wished to say that as long as the two wide people I saw each occupied 1.5 seats, then I thought it fair that airlines now charge them for the extra seat they were filling.
Still think so, and it carries no implications whatever. People who occupy the seat next to them with a child and carrier have to pay for it, too.
You've really never flown? Hard for me to imagine - but then all my cowboy friends have trouble believing I've never been astride a horse. True, though.
(But I'd only fill one saddle!)