Should airlines charge you by your weight?

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Posted by spitty on Aug-31-2008 19:53:

no. if they take up two seats, they should pay, but to charge them if they go over a certain weight would be unfair, in that a really short, fine boned girl 40 odd kilo while a healthy 6'7 male can be 90 kilo. being tall and broad isn't his fault and he shouldn't be forced to pay extra

Posted by jpistone on Aug-31-2008 21:30:

kilos?

where the heck are you writing from tazakstan?

I think it would be called pay-per-weigh
Its basically taking repsonibility for the airline to transport you

IE
you pay per a meal if you wanna supersize something you pay extra

quote:
Originally posted by spitty
no. if they take up two seats, they should pay, but to charge them if they go over a certain weight would be unfair, in that a really short, fine boned girl 40 odd kilo while a healthy 6'7 male can be 90 kilo. being tall and broad isn't his fault and he shouldn't be forced to pay extra

Posted by gummybear on Aug-31-2008 21:35:

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Originally posted by DigiNut
Oh, and what "basic human right" would that be?

I certainly can't remember reading anything like that in the Charter, or the U.S. Constitution, or even the U.N.'s utopian declaration...

the right to be fat as fuck..i think i saw it written somewhere...

Posted by dj_souvlaki on Sep-01-2008 15:29:

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Originally posted by DigiNut
Nah, not unless they take up two seats, in which case they already charge.

They should, however, place surcharges on B.O. rays strong enough to set off a Geiger counter. $10 per click.

And tack on a flat $500 for every time an infant cries, screams, or kicks the seat in front.

agreed times 100

especially that brown guy whos feet smelt like dead cat mixed in with skunk, baby diahrea, cow intestines and a sprinkle of sulphur that was sitting beside me on the way to ibiza.

Posted by feelgood on Sep-01-2008 17:09:

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Originally posted by Import
Id guess the off chance that someone might harm themself in order to save money would reduce the chances of something like this ever coming into effect.

I vote natural selection on that one.

Posted by linear_algebra on Sep-02-2008 06:10:

good thread!!!

haha

Posted by failsafe on Sep-02-2008 19:33:

It's been a few years since airlines forced people to buy the extra seat. They've been taken to court and things have changed quite a bit. Most airlines will offer the fatties a discount on a second seat, but they aren't forced to buy them. And yes fuel has surpassed employee wages as the largest cost in running an airline.

Posted by Silky Johnson on Sep-02-2008 19:37:

Fat people should be charged extra for everything, imo.

Posted by way2hi on Sep-03-2008 00:37:

i can't believe this many people have seriously weighed in on this subject - no pun intended. if you take up 2 seats 'cause you're an obese pig, then pay for 2 seats. but someone paying more 'cause they weigh 210 vs. 160, that's silly and hardly 'logical'. i can see the slogan now: 'sketch bags and annorexics fly for free'

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