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.
Everyone should be charged by bodyweight, then?
Problem is, a person who takes up two seats doesn’t necessarily weigh twice as much as the average. Thus, if you charged by weight, a person could get two seats for less than the price of two.
Best to charge by how many seats a person takes up.
The REALLY important thing is for people not to be paying for a seat, and then getting compressed into one-half a seat by a whale.
ANYBODY whose spare tire slops over the armrest should pay for two seats.
At one time I was in supply chain Mgmt and ran a large distribution center which shipped virtually everything via air freight. Air freight rates are calculated utilizing what’s known as the DIM’s factor. It’s a calculation that takes into consideration both weight and deminsions. If weight only were used then it would cost virtually nothing to ship a plane load of potato chips. Conversely, if dimensions only were used it would cost a fortune to ship the same load of potato chips. An extreme example but hopefully you get the idea and thus the logic behind using DIM’s. Anyway, being 6’4” and 250 lbs, I try very hard not to intrude into others space. I’m not fat so I don’t intrude to the left or right. But, I am long legged and sometimes in economy class the person in front of me can tilt their seat as far back as they would like. I would be perfectly happy to pay my fair share for additional space and I usually do by flying business or now the newly introduced premium economy. All I want is a fair deal and get what I pay for. Actually, I live in the Dallas area and if I need to go to perhaps Austin, Houston, anywhere within about 200 miles I just drive as the total elapsed travel time is about the same as flying, sometimes better when driving. That’s it! :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_weight
You bet they should pay more. I sat next to a total lard ass (brought his own seat belt extender) once and he kept oozing into my seat. He asked me if he could raise the arm rest and I told him no that was the only thing keeping most of him out of my seat.
I agree.
Absolutely, and charge by the kilo for bags. It would encourage thrift, and slim. It would help people to have an incentive to cut down what they put in the pie hole. People who are obese FLOOD the doctors office and make ER lines longer at hospitals. The time has come. Vote Trump and cut obesity.... He doesn;t like fat. He wants to get rid of the pork, and the largesse in gov;t education, military and families...