The first task involved in the whole process of planning a Thailand Holiday Package is undoubtedly flight booking. You’ll have to take extra care in booking one now, especially if Thai Airways is on the cards
Why?
Thai Airways is putting a waistline restriction on its newly acquired Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. This international carrier will not allow people with waistlines exceeding 56 inches in its business cabin. Because of this limitation, parents will no longer be able to carry infants on their laps.
Reason
The aircraft seats in the business class have been fitted with seatbelt airbags for safety reasons. These seatbelts can’t be extended because of the seatbelt mechanism and therefore, leads to this restriction.
Criticism
This new policy didn’t go down well with people. They took social media by storm to express their anger. In response, the airline apologized on twitter saying, “We are sorry for the inconvenience. It’s for safety that the seat belt contains an airbag and therefore can’t be extended.”
An activist from the Association of Thai Constitution Protection has even threatened to sue the company for its demeaning policy.
Not The First Time
Time and again, overweight travellers have to face humiliation because of such abject policies.
In 2017, Finnair Airways started weighing its passengers to accumulate data regarding passenger loads.
Hawaiian Airlines, in 2016, did something similar by asking passengers to step on a scale with their luggage as a part of a fuel-saving project.
In 2013, something even weirder happened when the now-defunct Samoa Air stated that it will charge passengers according to their body mass.
Whether Thai Airways is genuinely citing safety reasons behind this move or is doing something else in its guise is a debatable topic. While discussions have this queer habit of springing every day, life might have included only one Thailand Tour Package in your destiny. Explore your options and negate the ones that will do you no good.
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