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Overweight. What exactly does the word mean? Well, according to people today, it could mean anything. If you were to go around town and just look to find out how many people are “overweight”, what would you look for? Would you look for people who are obese, or people that are simply chubby and have minimal amounts of fat? For Southwest Airlines being overweight just meant that a person could not fit into a regular airplane seat and that a person had to lift up the armrest to be able to sit in a second seat. On June 26th, 2002 Southwest Airlines started to heavily enforce their policy of charging “overweight” passengers double the fair for the extra seat they spilled over into. Reasons brought forward for doing this were: loss of money due to not being able to fill the seats, complaining passengers that were being cramped, and safety issues. Size matters when other people are involved. For passengers that have to occupy seats right next to, or in front of the overweight passenger, size really does matter. Being cramped on a plane means a miserable ride for hours upon hours. No one wants a person next to them that takes up some of their seat. One cannot be expect to ride comfortably next to an overweight person, where the