Why don't airlines charge for people's weight, the same way they charge for the luggage's weight?
The cost for adding a few punds to your luggage is robbery.
I'm at least 40 lbs lighter than the average American.
Why can't they give me a discount considering that I probably cost less fuel than most people?
It would be illegal, deemed as discrimination.
Once or twice airlines asked a morbidly obese passenger to purchase 2 seats to prevent disturbance to others, and people lost their minds.
Too complicated… Then, you COULDN'T sell tickets over the 'net AND, has most people would want to weigh as little as possible, they'd want to strip-down, plugging-up the ticket counters…
That of course would be discriminatory. My wife's solution would be to charge by the pound for the passenger AND his luggage. That way no one could claim they were being embarassed because they were overweight - perhaps they were hauling bricks in their backpack.
That would discriminate against the weight challenged. P.S. I weigh 130 pounds.
Some do for small planes. Where the weight limits are limited.
A few Airlines do charge for the total weight of passenger and luggage measured at one time.
the days of large suitcases ended when people demanded a cheap seat fare.
It was a much more lenient process in decades past when the fare was much higher to fly.
You still take up one seat.
They charge If you have luggage. Then charge extra if your luggage is extremely over weight. So that is kind of how they deal with passengers too.
They should but that would get the fat slobs screaming discrimination. They think it's ok to encroach on the space that somebody else paid for.
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