Man kicked off flight for being ‘fatphobic’

A passenger who was forced to disembark a plane has asked whether or not he’s a “bad person” for what he said.

An airline drama has seen a man ask if he was wrong for comments he made about a fellow passenger – which saw him “kicked off” the plane.

The story has been lighting up Reddit, with thousands of comments being made on the man’s post in less than 15 hours.

The man said he was travelling to his home country and had just boarded a second connecting flight – which he said would last roughly 12 hours – when things seemed to get ugly very quickly, Fox News reports.

“I had the delightful sight of an obese man who was taking up a good chunk of my seat,” he wrote in his Reddit post.

The passenger, who is understood to be 18 years old, said that he was not a “small guy” himself having “broad shoulders” and being around 190cm tall. So he said a full seat would “already have been uncomfortable”.

A passenger got kicked off a flight after lashing at an ‘obese man’ taking over his seat. Picture: iStock

“I told the flight attendant about this issue, and she told me that the seat was paid for by this obese person and the flight was full,” he wrote.

“I asked the flight attendant how it’s possible that my seat [was] still rendered as available if it was being used for someone’s literal rolls.

“I then added on how this airline wasn’t absolutely terrible just a few years ago. (It wasn’t just this incident; they just went downhill in quality.)”

‘Made her double down’

He took to Reddit asking if he was in the wrong. Picture: iStock

But the man said his comments weren’t taken well by the flight attendant.

“These comments prompted the flight attendant to call me rude and just made her double down on [having me] kicked off the plane – though she reassured me I’d be compensated for this trouble, as I told her I wasn’t travelling for vacation.”

The man said he was called “fatphobic” by the passenger in question, while others gave him the “stink eye”.

“I know they think I’m a bad person for this, but on the other hand, I’m having to pay for the lack of discipline of another person as well as this sh**ty airline’s booking system,” he said.

“The airline staff sent a letter of complaint that I got appealed and the consequences in the complaint (being a temporary ban) were removed less than an hour later.

He was asked to leave the aircraft. Picture: iStock

“In the letter of complaint, it said I was being rude to other passengers and the staff. Since it got appealed so quick, I got to travel the next day anyway.”

He asked the online community if they thought he was in the wrong.

And the Redditors held nothing back.

“It probably would have been handled very differently if you had handled it differently,” one person wrote.

“I know air travel can make people turn into idiots, so please everyone, don’t be that idiot,” said another, while a third person minced no words and considered the original poster “an a**hole” for his actions.

“The statement ‘the lack of discipline’ got me to vote this way. Sure, maybe this guy had a lack of discipline. But maybe he has a medical issue that keeps him from losing the weight.”

Someone else wrote, “I’m also a tall and broad-shouldered person. But learn some damn tact.”

Another said the original poster was “fat-shaming the guy”.

“Did he even TRY asking the dude to move over a bit or did he go straight to b**ching at the flight attendant?”

“It’s interesting he says that he shouldn’t have to deal with someone else’s lack of discipline – yet he made the entire plane deal with his as he threw his baby tantrum.”

This story originally appeared on Fox Newsand is republished here with permission