Too Fat To Fly?

So there is this ad for the Realize Gastric Band, basically advertising having a band put around your stomach so you lose weight. It features overweight people offering up the reasons they want to lose weight -for example, one guy wants to get healthy so he can do karate with his daughter. But one woman's reason is "to fly to Paris with her husband." Is this really something you can't do if you are fat? I totally understand not being able to run around and play with you kids - or worrying that you won't live long enough to see them grow up. But not traveling? I know it probably isn't all that comfortable to be on an airplane for a transAtlantic flight if you are the size of two people, but does it really prevent you from going altogether? I doubt it unless you are spending so much on food you can't afford the flight. Otherwise it's just an issue of letting your disappointment in yourself stop you from what you want to do. And that is cause for therapy - not a reason to have surgery.