Washing down two pizzas with a Diet Coke does not count as "trying" to lose weight

If you frequently find yourself at 30,000 feet, good information to have in terms of who not to fly:

Canada's two largest airlines must give disabled and morbidly obese passengers an extra free seat on domestic flights, beginning in January, after the Supreme Court refused yesterday to consider the carriers' appeal of a federal order.

The truly disabled are a different matter entirely. However, the "morbidly obese":

The ruling is expected to benefit would-be travellers like Linda McKay-Panos, a Calgarian who has secured a declaration from the Federal Court of Appeal that she is obese enough to be considered disabled.

Ms. McKay-Panos, executive director of the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre, said yesterday that she has not travelled on Air Canada since 1997, when she endured a "humiliating" flight in which the airline refused her an extra seat even though "my hips were flowing over the arm rest, my hips were basically on the lap of the person who sat beside me."

How do you think the person sitting next to you felt? If anything it is they who should be protected from flabby fliers oozing over and under the demarcation line known as the arm-rest.