The Sky Steward has an interesting post about BBS, or Big Ball Syndrome:

With so many airlines like Virgin America, United, and JetBlue offering enhanced coach products that provide extra legroom, there is still the problem of BBS (Big Ball Syndrome) which causes many gentlemen to keep their legs spread wide apart. This causes major discomfort to the passengers on both sides of the BBS sufferer. It must be mentioned that symptoms of BBS are often simply imagined by men that wish they actually had BBS.

Hmm, no comment personally since I’m rarely in a middle seat, but I can’t say I’ve noticed this a whole lot. Beyond that, I think the person in the middle seat should have BBS all they want. After all, they’re in the middle, so let them try to make themselves as comfortable as possible.

Thoughts?

Posted on September 24th, 2009 by lucky
Filed under: Travel | 6 Comments »

  1. September 24th, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    Sinep said,

    An easy solution would be for the airlines to modify center seats to have a hole cut out of the cushion in the sackage region, providing ample room for a drop and dangle.

  2. September 25th, 2009 at 6:38 am

    Blandon said,

    OMG, and all these years I thought that BBS referred to a Bulletin Board Service!

  3. September 25th, 2009 at 7:49 am

    gobluetwo said,

    I was thinking this was going to be a car-related post about fancy german wheels (and how I really want some)!

  4. September 25th, 2009 at 8:24 am

    HunterSFO said,

    United – Please come up with a B+ section that offers extra width…

  5. September 25th, 2009 at 8:40 am

    gluedtothewindow said,

    I can’t believe you people, here’s a serious post about issues relating to Big Ball Syndrome and you sully it with JOKES.

  6. September 25th, 2009 at 9:35 am

    The Sky Steward said,

    I love the B+ idea. Another ancillary revenue stream for the the airlines!

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