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November 24, 2008
Airlines Forced to Provide Free Extra Seats
Posted by Dave Blount at November 24, 2008 9:08 PM
A healthy society honors health. A strong society honors strength. Likewise, in a moonbatty society, defects are regarded almost as holy.
It wasn't enough that anywhere you might want to park a car has the best places set aside in symbolic reverence for the handicapped, even at locations the truly handicapped would never go. Now this:
Canada's two largest airlines must give disabled and morbidly obese passengers an extra free seat on domestic flights, beginning in January, after the Supreme Court refused yesterday to consider the carriers' appeal of a federal order.
Joanne Neubauer, a superior citizen by virtue of having rheumatoid arthritis, crowed victoriously:
This means I'm equal now. I'm just so excited and happy that justice prevailed.
Not only is she equal, she's twice as equal as normal people, who have to pay double if they want two seats.
The ruling is expected to benefit would-be travellers like Linda McKay-Panos, a Calgarian who has secured a declaration from the Federal Court of Appeal that she is obese enough to be considered disabled.
Ms. McKay-Panos, executive director of the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre, said yesterday that she has not travelled on Air Canada since 1997, when she endured a "humiliating" flight in which the airline refused her an extra seat even though "my hips were flowing over the arm rest, my hips were basically on the lap of the person who sat beside me."
Now Air Canada can no longer oppress her.
Once society loses track of the concept of property, any extreme of idiocy is possible. Planes no longer belong to airlines, but to petty tyrant bureauweenies, who pass out free seats to the favored, which the rest of us pay for through higher fares.
Fortunately, no one's perfect. We all have some sort of defect we can nurture and exaggerate, giving us an opportunity to join the elite. Next schizophrenics will request free seats for their imaginary friends, grouches will insist on their own row as a reward for being socially impaired, the olfactorily sensitive will demand a whole section of the plane because smelling other people's flatulence makes them feel victimized, et cetera, ad nauseam.
In the end, the courts will order airlines to give us each our own private plane. But then all the planes will be grounded, in case the exhaust hurts the polar bears.
On tips from hiram and Antara.
