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Canada court rejects airline fee for obese passengers

Britain News.Net
Thursday 20th November, 2008

The Supreme Court in Canada has upheld a ruling that obese and disabled people will be able to have two seats for the price of one on domestic flights.

An appeal by Canadian airlines that opposed giving two seats for the price of one was dismissed.

The original ruling came from the Canadian Transportation Agency which argued that airlines were discriminating against some passengers because they were charging them an extra fare for taking more space.

Obese people will now be charged only one fare disabled people will be entitled to a carer sitting in a second seat for free.

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