Posted on 02/22/2025 11:07:02 PM PST by Cronos
A debate is brewing over whether airlines should adopt weight-based pricing, charging passengers based on their weight to reduce fuel consumption and emissions.
This discussion follows a broader trend of U.S. airlines implementing fees for checked baggage, which began in 2008 with American Airlines, and has since become standard practice.
While Samoa Air's 2013 'fat tax' failed to gain traction, Finnair recently conducted a three-month voluntary data collection initiative, gathering passengers' weight along with their carry-on luggage.
This anonymized data — including age, gender and travel class — will be used to refine aircraft balance and loading calculations from 2025 to 2030.
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I saw an interview where he said that and IIRC, he said it would cost LESS than the ozempic.
They could make the entry doors to the airport the same width as the seats. The same way you check if your carry-on is the right size by sliding it through that metal frame.
I remember watching The Honeymooners as a kid and being disgusted with Jackie Gleason. I thought he was horribly fat.
Recently I saw a clip from an episode of that and he didn’t look that bad compared to what we see now.
How times have changed.
[They could offer fat only flights.]
Maybe a C-130? Strap them on a cargo pallet and unload them by dragging a parachute?
Thank you. Animals do not belong on the seat next to me. I’ve had to ask to be reseated before due to someone’s mongrel next seat over
from seats designed for the Corporate class to seats designed for the Corpulant class in one generation. ok...maybe two.
I’m at the perfect weight for age and height mostly because of diet and exercise but also because my favorite “emotional support animal” isn’t kept in a cage. it’s in the refrigerator until It’s Grillin’ Time. “Real Life demands Real Food” applies.
yes I agree.
Charge by the butt space. If you require two butt spaces, pay pay for two.
****a ‘weight threshold’ model (extra charges for passengers over 160 pounds)****
If they adopt that or something similar it is pricing by sex, men extra and women the reduced priced.
What about people that are just physically larger than average. I’m not excessively overweight, maybe 30 pounds at best. Losing that weight isn’t going to change my structure, which quite literally is larger than the space allotted in economy class (my shoulders are wider than the space is), which forces me to lean to the side if someone is seated next to me to avoid encroaching on their space.
Take height into account. BMI might get it done best
yeah, I’m 6’1, 220. Economy class is pretty damned uncomfortable to me.
I agree with the food problem here. When we travel to Taiwan for a couple weeks I lose several pounds and feel better while eating everything in sight. Which is strange as most is deep fried foods. I guess at the pastries and breads helping as all is made with rice flour instead of wheat but just guessing.
There’s a lot of fat kids nowadays.
But I demand that my Emotional Support giraffe be accommodated!
Regards,
The airlines should replace a few rows of the usual seats with bigger seats to accommodate the bigger customers. But yes, those customers should have to pay a higher price.
weight AND balance
I’m sure you right, so that’s even worse.
I’ll be interested in seeing the repudiation of the food pyramid, among other things, once RFKJr gets going.
We all cause wear and tear, ita just a matter of degrees when it comes to weight- the heavy person walks through a store 1 time, the skinny person walks through several times, which does the more damage structurally over time? How do you calculate?
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