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| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Of course there would be an increase in costs to other passengers. Unlike the two seat travelers the air lines are not going to simply eat this. Think about it... one of the major costs to air lines is fuel. The amount of weight in a plane impacts how much fuel is required to fly it a given distance. If you have a passenger who ways twice as much as the average passenger then that person requires twice as much fuel to get to the destination then does the average passenger. So, just by being fat the fat passenger hurts the airline's bottom line. Now add to this that fatty gets to take up two seats (one for free) thereby lowering the amount of paying passengers the airline get revenue from and you've now hurt the revenue line as well as the expenses... this means decreased profits for the airlines... since airlines run on exceedingly tight profit margins they cannot absorb this hit; rather, they will adjust their prices so that the loss in revenues and increase in expenses they suffer because of this ruling will be covered by those increased prices. Sure... they won't make an announcement at the gate that everyone has to cough up an extra $7 dollars because a passenger just got brought through security by a forklift but they will raise the prices across the board.
edit... yeah, I was fat; however, I never required two fuckin' seats on an airplane... and if I did I wouldn't have thought that everyone else should pay extra because I can't shoehorn into a seat. |
then why don't we just pay per pound for our airline tickets...when they put your luggage on the scale you just hop on as well.
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Last edited by Moral Hazard on Apr-26-2011 at 07:48
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