Should overweight people pay more for seat in a plane?

Er, no. America is having an Obesity epidemic. Airlines seats might not be generous, but they are fine for fit and healthy people.

If they are fat, yes! Why should fit people subsidise fatties?

 

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The difference is negligable on a 2-300 tonne aircraft.

 

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Women should pay more. they have on average wider hips and other things sticking out.

 

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Also Latvians, they bring uncesseary misery to any flight. Not like cheery Americans, who whoop and holler when the plane lands.

 

Rules rules rules. Now they want us to read what other people have written before posting anything.

 

Not true, Latvians always applaud to AirBaltic crew when it is clear we've landed in Latvia.
AirBaltic flies very special airplanes.

 

It's not at all negligable. Freight makes up a high percent of passenger flight profit. You will pay extra for heavier luggage not because of inconvenience to an airline but because that is less weight they can carry as freight. The difference in weight between a healthy 150lb male and an obese 225lb male is a 75 lbs of freight that might bring in more profit than both airline tickets combined. Multiply that by 20 pasengers and it's millions of dollars for that plane in a year's flying.

 

They will not compare the weight of freight with the weight of passengers on a flight. The limit on frieght is not determined by how heavy the passengers are, it is a separate limit for the plane. That 75lbs can easily be made up by having 75 people on the plane who are 1lb below the design weight. The design weight (ie the assumed weight of a single passenger) is usually conservatively estimated eg 300lb or whatever.

 

No. they design for limits and margins of safety. They need to assume there will be porkers on board that raise the passenger freight load. A plane carrying 275 225lb porkers can not carry the freight of one with healthy people aboard. Margins of profit are in a few thousands of pounds freight, liters of fuel consumption, etc.

The airline industry is private and not a public service. Nothing is stopping an airline from starting up 'Fatso Airlines'....except Fatso airlines would go bankrupt transporting obese folks around because of cost.

 

passenger freight load? You mean the combined weight of passengers and freight?

 

Its the fat edge of the wedge.

:-/

Seriously, the answer is no merely due to the fact that fat people are already discriminated against re. operations..on the spurious grounds that they have less chance of survival. This may be true of the obese and its natural to tell people to lose wgt.

On the downside you get people who are only slightly overweight being turned down despite paying into the system by Tax for 40 or 50 yrs.

That is obvious discrimination and utterly unfair.

End of.

 

Back in the mid 1970's when I was in university I used to fly back and forth a lot between Montreal and Frankfurt in Germany.Flights back then were much more expensive when adjusting for inflation. Overnight courieurs were not as established as today. I could get all or most of my flight paid for by not taking luggage and carrying a couple of envelopes or packages. Lots of students and other frequent passengers did this. As an extra bonus, back then food and drinks were much more plentiful on planes. I'd bring an empty bag with me and stuff it with those small bottles of wine and other goodies. (Student survival 101).

 

Fat people are a hazzard in case of emergency. Try to get passed or push away 3-4 fatsos when the plane is on fire!!!

 

not only that, they must pay additional taxes for environmental cleanup. they exceed standard emissions and whatnot

 

/beautifully cruel

you too, syz

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I forgot about the babies. I would rather sit among 50 super-obese people than one baby or child.

 

It's not about you, it's about weight and space used.

 

HUH? what is wrong with a child? some are very well behaved you know! even though they aren't born again Christian children!!

 

They should pay for two seats\, when they force someone off the plane, because they take two seats. I have been on a plane and they kicked a SKINNY GUY OFF THE PLANE SO THE FAT PORKER COULD TAKE TWO SEATS.

 

And once they catch fire they are like blazing barrels of oil.
Keep them off planes altogether!