This blog is a late entry from my April trip to Montréal. On my flight home I was seated in a row that had the following 3 passengers:
- Myself (A 6’4″ tall male, broad in the shoulders)
- An athletic dude (Body builder style arms, hyped up on something making him very bouncy)
- A business man (Also very tall and some extra junk in his trunk)
This combination has happened to me before on a full plane and an airline flight attendant walked past, burst out laughing and said “Ohhh NO! We can’t have you three monster men all crammed in like that!” and she proceeded to juggle the plane around so there was one big guy in each row.
Well this time we weren’t so lucky. The plane was packed, it was late at night, all of our attempts to move somewhere else failed and the flight attendants were tired and didn’t offer much help. It was at this moment I came up with the “Snakes on a plane rule”. Simply stated 3 grown men shall not be sat in the same row.
This might require changes to the check-in process but I know it could be done because there are similar rules in place that this one could be modeled after.
- You can’t have 2 infants sitting in the same row with three adults on most planes. This is because when the oxygen masks drop, 4 come out not 5, so one infant would be without. Some plans only have 4 masks on one side of the plane and therefore infants can only sit on that side if there are 3 adults in the row.
- You must speak the primary language of the airline if you are in the emergency exit row. You have to be able to tell other passengers there is fire out your door or provide similar instructions.
- You must also be physically able to open the door if you are seated in the emergency exit row.
- There even used to be a rule that you couldn’t serve peanuts within 4 rows of someone with an allergy. This was solved when they stopped serving food entirely.
So I think it could be done. The exception to the rule would be if they were all extremely good looking men, then I think the Snakes on a plane rule could be overlooked. 😉
Neil……..
This is a crazy idea, airlines just need to give people more space! But I do know what you mean. Once when coming home from Grande Prairie, which is a palace of a place, I was seated in a row with two giant rig workers. The funny thing was that 2 rows up there was and entire section with no one in it. I asked the flight attendant if I could move and she said “oh so you don’t want those guys to touch you” and I stood there looking at her and said “I just thought it would be less squishy” and she says “like I care, move fast if you are moving” So I did and I had 3 whole seats to myself, and by moving I was in another attendants section, this one was much nicer.
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