Drama At The Gate: Overweight Italian Woman Bad, EasyJet Good

Where: Italy

August 28, 2009 at 9:09 AM | by amandak | 0 Comments

We haven't whined about European LCC EasyJet in a while, and you know we like to complain a bit about all those "cheap" airlines that keep adding charges. So you can imagine our delight to hear EasyJet in the news again, even if it's the bad news that the LCC was recently mean to a middle-aged, overweight Italian woman.

But then we discovered that the whole ordeal was faked. Anna Delluci went public about suing EasyJet after they apparently made her step on the scales in front of a bunch of other passengers, then told her that at 98kg (216 pounds), she would have to buy a second ticket to be able to fly. A day after her story went public, it was unveiled as a hoax.

Exactly why anyone would parade around saying, "Look at me, I'm so fat an airline wouldn't let me board" is beyond us, but for once our sympathy lies with EasyJet. They say they don't have a fat-people-buy-two-seats policy, although they do recommend that passengers who "feel" they might need an extra seat should probably buy one. So for now at least, the portly have nothing to fear by pushing their luck with one seat on EasyJet because they do not, we repeat—they do not keep scales next to the boarding gate. Italian lady just had a serious screw loose.

Related Stories:
· Too Fat To Fly Woman A Hoax [news.com.au]
· RyanAir Makes Predictable Contribution To The Ongoing 'Passengers Of Size' Debate [Jaunted]
· Fat Passengers Weighing Down Airlines [Jaunted]

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