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the new and improved airline ticketing policy
benjamin and i tend to entertain ourselves throughout the day with random banter, and recently he sent me the following article:
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.
The high court declined to hear an appeal by Canadian airlines of a decision by the Canadian Transportation Agency that people who are “functionally disabled by obesity” deserve to have two seats for one fare.
The airlines had lost an appeal at the Federal Court of Appeal in May and had sought to launch a fresh appeal at the Supreme Court. The court’s decision not to hear a new appeal means the one-person-one-fare policy stands.
The appeal had been launched by Air Canada, Air Canada Jazz and WestJet.
(Reporting by Randall Palmer)
how is this even remotely fair? i am being punished for the “disability” of those who are unwilling to change the physical condition in which they have been living? - ultimately by paying higher prices for my own plane tickets. i have a very very huge problem with obesity because a healthy lifestyle is a choice, and whereas obesity is certainly a genetic trait, the sedentary lifestyle is not. i have an even bigger problem with paying more. i have always been an advocate of the pay-per-pound airline tickets. trust me, i will GLADLY step on a scale and take advantage of the fact that i am the size of an average 12 year-old girl and shell out a little bit less money.
benjamin, however, gave the ultimate solution to this problem and has figured out how to price tickets. i suggest he submit it to delta:
There is a baseline there for which the airline must account. If the total cost of flying an empty plane from point A to point B is X, and flying a full plane (with average weight for passengers and baggage) is Y, then you would have to charge a base of X/C, with C being the capacity (in no. of seats), plus a weight based charge of WI(Y-X)/C, with WI being a weight index of your weight (plus baggage) over the average weight. Total cost of a flight is [X+WI(Y-X)]/C
pretty good, huh!?
on a somewhat related note, my father and i have been having dialogues about the comments we receive about our physical appearances. dad is 5′7″ and about 130 on a heavy day (mom is 5′3″ 100), so you can see where i get my tremendous size. regardless, people are always telling both of us that we need to eat more, or that we look unhealthy. for those of you who know me and have seen me with less-than-conservative clothing on, would you consider me too small? dad can lift a ridiculous amount, runs more (and faster) than i do, and has a fabulous diet (diet does not mean less food, it means better dietary choices). i have an appointment with a nutritionist on 12/6 so that i can work on losing some of the “extra fat” that my nutritionist says that i am storing. to be honest, i’m pretty stoked. i’m working on that jessica biel/evangeline lilly body. oh, it’s gonna get here. just in time for bikini season and my 25th birthday cruise.
Jessica Biel
i love how in the movie wall-E, all of the humans have robots and machines doing everything for them to the point that they cannot think for themselves and are entirely overweight. i honestly think that we are well on our way to that point. it is just a shame that nature’s rules of survival of the fittest does not seem to apply anymore. sigh.
i’m a size what?
last sunday, i was feeling pretty awful about a few things. in true lindsay fashion, i decided to drop a load of cash on myself (i don’t do that often). amongst the items i purchased (besides a new hair style and color) was a gray business skirt. i walked into express, grabbed a size 2 (which i have been in express clothing since i was about 15), and went to the register.
monday morning, i threw on the skirt. to my dismay, i could not keep the skirt over my hips. that’s correct, not my waist, my hips.
my “measurements” are approximately 33-24-34. this is the only thing keeping my small frame looking remotely feminine - i am relatively proportional. knowing these numbers, this can lead one to conclude that the waist of this skirt was at least 33 inches. i was able to pull the skirt off of my waist, make two fists, and fit them easily into the gap between the skirt and my waist.
i double checked the size. size 2.
i read somewhere that the size 8 of today is the size 16 of 30 years ago. clothing manufacturers are relabeling clothes with smaller sizes. i would surmise this is a move to make women feel more confident. there are numerous times that i have talked to girls who are about 15 to 20 pounds heavier than me, and have claimed to be the same size as me. i never questioned it aloud, but always wondered. but after this past weekend, i will no longer doubt their claims for a second.
sure, i understand that if a manufacturer sizes their clothing so that a larger woman thinks she is a smaller size, it may entice her to purchase that brand of clothing more often because she can get into a “6″ instead of a “10.” however, for those at the other end of the spectrum, my only remaining option is to shop at kids clothing stores which does not lend itself well to a working professional.
the only rational thought that comes into my head is that women need to get over this horrible self image hurdle. yes, i understand that i am much smaller than most females, but have you looked at my training page? i work relatively hard to be as petite as i am. i hurt, i sweat, and i spend (on average) 2 hours a day working out. granted, i have nothing else to do, but it is somewhat of a priority for me.
if you are unhappy with your clothing size, get your ass to the gym. i promise that if you are working out, working hard, and eating right, no matter what your body type and body size is naturally, you will become content with what you have achieved, and the little number on the tag in your jeans will not make a difference to you anymore. don’t let your lack of motivation affect my ability to purchase adult-sized clothing.