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Dec 2006
'Humiliated' overweight Frenchman sues airline
London:
A bulky man, who travelled on Air France, has
sued the airline for 5000 pounds after being "humiliated"
by its staff who reportedly weighed him, measured
his waist and charged him for two seats. French writer
Jean-Jacques Jauffret (41) paid an extra 400 pounds
to fly home from New Delhi, India. He told a France
court that he felt humiliated on being asked to be
weighed before being allowed to travel by the airline:
"I felt ashamed and belittled when check-in workers
asked me to step out of the queue to be weighed,"
The Sun quoted him as saying. But the airline justified
the decision to charge him for two seats. "This man
can barely balance on his chair in this courtroom,
so how is he expected to squash into a small single
seat on a plane? The plane was full and it would not
have been fair on other passengers to allow him to
take a second seat for free," said Air France lawyer
Fernand Garnault.
-Dec
21, 2006
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