Maybe the airlines should make passengers weigh in and pay by the pound.
American made everyone give our weight on a flight to Colorado back in 1980. I worried the entire time if the plane was going to crash and kill us all because someone ate or didn’t poop before boarding.
“Maybe the airlines should make passengers weigh in and pay by the pound.”
About a year before the B$ pandemic one of our younger male relatives (not overweight) was getting flak from a stew about the weight of his briefcase in the overhead storage. Most of that was his lap top, tablet and cellphone which he never uses on a plane.
He asked for the pilot and the pilot and supposedly the secret federal flight Sky Marshall started to confront our son.
Our son said that if the airline was concerned about extra weight in the plane, they should fire all overweight flight attendants, sky marshals and eliminate at least 50% of the overweight passengers.
Next, he pointed that this Airline 99% of the time wanted him setting in an aisle seat and in business class if seats were open.
Finally, he gave business cards from his corporate lawyer to the pilot and sky marshal and told them. “You can talk to my lawyer, I’m through talking.”
They left him alone and went into first class. A couple of minutes later, they told him, he had a free upgrade to a First Class aisle seat and a different flight attendant
After the plane landed back here, the pilot apologized to our son and said, “You understand about unions, don’t you!?”
Now, this son often get free up grades to first class if there is room on that airline.