{"id":221798,"date":"2023-08-29T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T09:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/?p=221798"},"modified":"2023-08-29T09:45:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T09:45:59","slug":"my-ryanair-seatbelt-was-so-tight-despite-me-being-average-dress-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/lifestyle\/my-ryanair-seatbelt-was-so-tight-despite-me-being-average-dress-size\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ryanair seatbelt was so tight &#8211; despite me being average dress size"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>My seatbelt on a Ryanair flight was painfully tight &#8211; despite me being the average UK dress size<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Katie Higgins, 33, from Ayr, posted on Facebook about her experiences\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Read more: Did blunder by French airline spark air traffic meltdown? Officials probe if badly filed travel plan caused UK&#8217;s entire flight-control system&#8217;s collapse<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A beautician has criticised Ryanair after enduring a &#8216;too short&#8217; seatbelt on a recent flight, saying their standard size belts could be viewed as &#8216;fatphobic&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Air passenger Katie Higgins, 33, from Ayr, says her experiences earlier this month while flying from Glasgow to visit family in Cork left her feeling &#8216;lassoed&#8217; to her seat because the safety belt at its maximum length was too tight.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Katie says she&#8217;s a size 16 &#8211; the average dress size in the UK &#8211; but says\u00a0there was barely an inch of room left after connecting the metal fasteners.<\/p>\n<p>She claims that she would have had to ask for an extender belt if the material was any tighter &#8211; despite the fact that she matches the size profile of the average UK woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/29\/09\/74824177-12456201-image-a-4_1693299534557.jpg\" height=\"837\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Katie Higgins, 33, from Ayr, posted on Facebook about her experiences on a recent Ryanair flight, saying the standard seat belt was so tight she almost had to request an extender &#8211; despite her being a size 16, the UK&#8217;s national average dress size for women<\/p>\n<p>After she posted about her experience on social media, she says lots of people have admitted to purchasing their own extenders to take on board flights &#8211; because they want to avoid the embarrassment of asking for one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One person responded:\u00a0&#8216;I&#8217;m so glad you posted this. I thought it was just me. I can&#8217;t even breathe when I&#8217;m on a Ryanair flight and it&#8217;s much too embarrassing to ask for the extender. I know I shouldn&#8217;t be, because as you said, we all come in different shapes and sizes.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Katie says that she isn&#8217;t &#8216;delusional&#8217; about her size but was baffled when the belt didn&#8217;t fit as she has recently lost two stone in weight &#8211; and says plus-size passengers might face being judged if they have to ask cabin crew for belt extenders.<\/p>\n<p>The part-time blogger shared how she felt on Facebook, where she claimed that the budget airline&#8217;s tight seat belts could harm &#8216;the self-esteem and mental health&#8217; of some passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Katie explained: &#8216;I was lassoed by the seat belt. It just fitted, but if it had been digging into me anymore, I would have been very uncomfortable. If someone else was a different shape or a different size, they might not be able to tie it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/29\/09\/74824171-12456201-image-a-8_1693299567790.jpg\" height=\"813\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Katie, who&#8217;s recently lost two stone, says she was shocked at how small the standard belt was, and says it could make plus-sized flyers feel &#8216;judged&#8217; if they have to ask for an extender<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/29\/09\/74824173-12456201-image-a-1_1693299504176.jpg\" height=\"847\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The beautician from Scotland took a photo of how she had just a thumb&#8217;s worth of room after she put the belt at its maximum width<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/29\/09\/74824175-12456201-image-a-5_1693299549960.jpg\" height=\"950\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;With other airlines, you can usually pull the length of the belt a little and try to adjust it, but there was none of that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was across me, and there was about an inch [of room] at the bottom and nothing else. If it was any tighter, I would have been very uncomfortable on the flight.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8216;I&#8217;m not delusional, I know I&#8217;m a bigger woman. But there has to be some bit of give, especially since I lost two stone in weight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Because it just fit, I didn&#8217;t say anything. I didn&#8217;t want to take one of the extender belts from someone who might need it. It&#8217;s very frustrating.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/29\/09\/74824181-12456201-image-a-3_1693299527261.jpg\" height=\"757\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Keen traveller Katie, pictured in Hollywood, has now called for airlines to address sizing on seatbelts, saying they could potentially pose a safety risk if people are too shy to ask for an extender<\/p>\n<p>Katie says that the short belts are fundamentally a &#8216;safety issue&#8217; and believes that the airline could be viewed as &#8216;fatphobic&#8217; by some flyers.<\/p>\n<p>The activist is now calling for the public to listen to the concerns of plus-sized people &#8211; rather than telling them to &#8216;lose weight&#8217; or accusing them of demanding &#8216;bigger seats&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There must have been other people on the flight in a worse position than me. If it just fits, even if it&#8217;s a bit tight, I&#8217;ll let someone else use the belt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think anyone who has experienced fatphobia could see it that way &#8211; I have unfortunately experienced a lot of this kind of thing. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s fatphobic, but I think a lot of people could see it that way. I think it&#8217;s them cutting corners more than being fatphobic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A size 16 is the size of the average UK woman. By this logic, the average person needs an extender.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/29\/09\/74824183-12456201-image-a-7_1693299563818.jpg\" height=\"464\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Katie says that her confusion only heightened on her flight home the following week, when she was given a fitting seat belt &#8211; which led her to claim that flying with Ryanair is like &#8216;potluck&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Ryanair has been contacted for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The beautician claims that she hasn&#8217;t yet contacted Ryanair about the issue as she believes that her complaint would fall on deaf ears but used her social media to shame them instead.<\/p>\n<p>Katie said: &#8216;I flew on Friday, and I was lassoed by the seatbelt. I flew back again on the Monday and the seatbelt was looser. So unless I&#8217;m doing magic tricks over the weekend, this is a bit of an issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was more annoyed than anything else, because it&#8217;s like potluck getting on a flight&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/29\/09\/74824167-12456201-image-a-2_1693299520104.jpg\" height=\"949\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pot luck: The beautician also says that her return flight from Cork was fitted with a bigger seatbelt, suggesting inconsistency in sizing\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I haven&#8217;t complained before because I feel like it would fall on deaf ears. It&#8217;s one of those situations that&#8217;s like, &#8216;put up or shut up&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Maybe it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s a budget airline you [should] just expect these things, but we&#8217;re not [even] getting cheap flights anymore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I put the post up on Facebook it would help someone else feel less alone. It could be quite damaging for people, to feel like it&#8217;s just them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s a lot of people who reached out and told me that they bought their own belt extender because they were afraid of the embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s nothing to do with the size of you &#8211; it&#8217;s to do with the size of the belt and the safety aspect of it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Katie&#8217;s post racked up more than 400 likes, shares and comments on Facebook, and several viewers shared their own experiences in the comment section.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/29\/10\/74824179-12456201-image-a-9_1693299964525.jpg\" height=\"1119\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Katie said of the response to her post: &#8216;There&#8217;s a lot of people who reached out and told me that they bought their own belt extender because they were afraid of the embarrassment&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>One said: &#8216;Last year flying to Dublin, during the flight out the belt fit fine and I felt really good!<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;On the way home, not a chance. I hated myself so much and it took everything I had not to cry.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another added: &#8216;I have just flown to Croatia and had to ask for a belt extender. I don&#8217;t give a flying f*ck what people think but you can see the looks of disgust.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12456201\/seatbelt-Ryanair-flight-fatphobic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My seatbelt on a Ryanair flight was painfully tight &#8211; despite me being the average UK dress&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>My Ryanair seatbelt was so tight - despite me being average dress size - All World Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/lifestyle\/my-ryanair-seatbelt-was-so-tight-despite-me-being-average-dress-size\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Ryanair seatbelt was so tight - despite me being average dress size - All World Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My seatbelt on a Ryanair flight was painfully tight &#8211; 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