The airline company has to spend a certain amount for fuel per lb of weight and if you cost more to lift, then you should pay more. Sorry.
Fat chance.
It’s all up in the air.
I don't care if your BMI is perfect, if you are 6'6" you are going to spill over.
Absolutely. Airlines should be accountable for delivering the seat I purchase. I am a very frequent flyer and my biggest dread is being seat next to an obese person that usurps part of my seat.
I fit in the seats except for my arms and shoulders. Try to get aisle seats ad I’m fine. Window seats are ok because I can kind of twist a bit and lean on wall...but if I’m between other people I hold my arms and shoulders foreward to give them room. It’s great to be huge and strong in a confintation...not do much when flying...
Absolutely.
This is all part of divide and conquer. Get us cattle to fight over who gets a window seat on the way to the slaughterhouse.
Heck yeah
Samoa Aar is now charging a “ fat tax” How’s that for irony?
JULES
You remember Antwan Rockamora?
Half-black, half-Samoan, usta call
him Tony Rocky Horror.
VINCENT
Yeah maybe, fat right?
JULES
I wouldn’t go so far as to call the
brother fat. He’s got a weight
problem. What’s the nigger gonna
do, he’s Samoan.
what about tall people?
I think the free market should decide.
Put all the big and fat people together (or evenly distribute them in clumps if it affects aircraft weight and balance) and let them work it out among themselves. I’m tired of losing space I paid for.
500+lb fatsos who eat dessert pizzas and a dozen Jimmy Deans per day shouldn’t be allowed to fly period.
Airlines can only conduct their business in full cooperation and necessarily under the supervision of government. The plane loads passengers at a public airport, it's takes off from a public runway, it's communicates and navigates on our Victor Airways maintained by the government. Bearing hundreds of souls, it is necessarily under scrutiny for safety regulations as is any common carrier.
So airlines are regulated, before Ronald Reagan they were over regulated but now they have a degree of independence within which to maximize their profits and that, in turn, through the invisible hand of the marketplace produces the best and cheapest air transportation system available.
Now we are not discussing the safety of passengers which most people except the most committed libertarian would concede should be regulated by the government, we are moving from safety into the realm of passenger comfort.
When we speak of passenger comfort we are inclined to revert to our original position and argue that the passenger and the airline should have the power free of government to negotiate the price and size of the seats as well as the quality of the food or the rating of the movie. But again, alas, the matter is not that simple.
It's not that simple primarily because leftists simply will not leave it that way. To them the world consists of government in search of a problem. Inevitably, they will impose a solution on this dilemma of providing adequate seating for manly men and curvaceous women without infringing on the comfort zone of the punies in the next seat but they will seek to do so by stealth if necessary in order to gain credit without paying any political cost. A likely solution for them will be to require the airlines to provide oversized seating for heavyset people at no additional cost. This will appeal to the left because the costs are hidden because the costs are spread over 300 or 400 seats or more and the traveling public will likely be unaware why their ticket price went up a bit.
Such a regulation, it would come from from bureaucrats, is a win-win for leftists because inevitably the airlines will come begging to government to relieve them of the inevitably overbroad regulation which they will be only too happy to do in exchange for campaign contributions. If the large airlines can convince leftist bureaucrats or leftist politicians to erect barriers to entry against small time startup competitors, so much the better for them and so much the better for the politicians.
So from a simple everyday human exchange starting with an elbow in the ribs we have found a way for everyone to prosper-isn't that wonderful when we all realize that it takes a village because we didn't build that?
On a similar principle, all those “manspreading” men taking up three seats in the subway car should presumably pay three times as much for a subway ride.
I have always believed that the rational way to price air fare is weight. The passenger and all his luggage pays per pound. Then the 400 pound behemoth can get his two seats and is himself not rendered uncomfortable by the lumpy slimmer passenger that is already in one of them. The cost to fly a passenger is related to the amount of fuel used which is directly related to the weight of the cargo. More pounds carried = more fuel burned.
Was it Randy Newman who sang,
Fat people got no reason to live?