Delta seat belt controversy

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Delta Air Lines is catching heat over seatbelt lengths on its planes after TikToker Remi Bader made a complaint about not fitting into hers in a video to her two million followers.
The plus-size influencer, who is best known for her "realistic" clothing hauls, took to the platform on Tuesday to say that she had an "interesting experience" flying Delta while she was traveling from California to New York.

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The 25-year-old explained on TikTok that she was "freaking out" as she felt that it was unsafe to be without a seatbelt. She also wasn't aware of seatbelt extenders, which are used to make them longer for passengers in planes and cars. "This is not long enough, I don't know what I'm supposed to do," Bader recalled telling a flight attendant later in the flight. "She was like, 'Oh so you’re saying you need an extender?'"
Numerous followers shared that they've had similar experiences.

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I'm sorry a TWELVE/FOURTEEN is where their belts tap out!??? The most COMMON SIZE FOR U.S. WOMEN!!??!" a follower commented on Bader's TikTok.
Another wrote, "We are travelers — seatbelts should be made to fit travelers. Period."
"When I went to buckle my seatbelt for takeoff, I was really taken back to realize that it wouldn’t close around my body," Bader tells Yahoo Life. "I almost thought something was wrong for a second and was pulling it harder because this has never happened to me before."
Bader quickly brought the issue to the attention of her Instagram followers as well when she posted a story this week suggesting that Delta get larger seatbelts. "If it doesn't fit around me that must be a real problem for a lot of other people flying on your planes," she wrote, noting that she's a size 16 or 18.

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This is a really good example of how people who consider themselves midsize or even the people that are on the smaller end of the fat spectrum do not have a whole picture of what people like me and even people larger than me on the fat spectrum experience on a daily basis or even when they’re traveling," the user, whose name is Christine, said in her video. "I am fully aware that [seatbelt extenders] exist because I traveled for my job for almost a year and needed one every single time I got on the plane once or twice a month."

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