Too Fat to Fly?

Actor and director, Kevin Smith, was deemed too fat to fly by Southwest Airlines last week. Then I ran across this picture that made the news taken by an airline stewardess.

Seems every month or so, I hear reports of passengers being rejected from airplanes because their tush would take up more than one seat on the airplane. Is this the coming trend? According to health.com, one out of every three American adults is obese, and two out of every three are overweight. Trust for American Health reports that adult obesity rates now exceed 25 percent in 31 states and exceed 20 percent in 49 states and Washington, D.C. There is no doubt we love to eat. Unfortunately, I see the very possibility of it becoming harder and harder for us to find an airline seat that can accommodate an oversized populace. In the future we may have to look to old fashion American entrepreneurial spirit to meet this challenge, and really cater to the needs and wants of these good paying, oversized air passengers...