Your request is being processed... Obese Airline Rights: Canada Court Rules The Obese Have Rights To Two Seats

This is amazing...I am not the "slenderest" but I mean if I did weigh so much that I needed 2 seats I would expect to pay! I side with Quagmire on this one...fat folks need love too...but they have to pay!

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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.

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