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The maximum length in centimetres that a person’s waist can measure if they wish to fly business class on Thai Airways’ new Boeing 787 Dreamliners. The new “Zodiac Cirrus” seats, which convert to flat beds, have been fitted with airbags, and safety belts that cannot extend around waists more than 56-inches thick. The news is being spun online as a “ban“on obese passengers — and parents with babies on their laps. Both are typically given seatbelt extenders but these are not possible in this case because of the airbags.