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You plus your baggage times miles equals airfare. If you think fatties were mad about paying for two seats, wait till this idea catches on.
1 posted on 06/04/2008 9:04:56 AM PDT by mngran2
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This is the way to do it (that's me on the left) ...

55 posted on 06/04/2008 10:35:29 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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I can assure you that this will never happen.

For one thing, it would be a logistical pain in the @ss in terms of: (1) the reservation process (is the fare based on the passenger's weight at reservation time, or at boarding time), (2) airport operations (as if any airline is going to implement a weigh-in process that actually works efficiently), and (3) the legal process that would bankrupt any airline that tried to do such a thing (Do pregnant women have to pay more? Do people with wheelchairs have to pay more?).

56 posted on 06/04/2008 10:43:31 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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I guess it makes sense, but I can’t say I’d fly on the airline that tried out this policy. I’m a reasonable size and am comfortable sitting in the airplane seats, so I’d probably even get charged less this way, but still I’m not as young or thin as I once was and I don’t want to be publicly weighed by airline workers, thank you! Those people are rude enough as it is without discussing my weight with me. :P


57 posted on 06/04/2008 10:58:08 AM PDT by CatherinePPP
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It will not survive attacks based on race and sex discrimination, and especially not the Americans with Disabilities Act.


61 posted on 06/04/2008 11:24:35 AM PDT by Petronski (Scripture & Tradition must be accepted & honored w/equal sentiments of devotion & reverence. CCC 82)
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Does this mean they’ll be going back to skinny young stewardesses? and not heavy bitter old shrews?


66 posted on 06/04/2008 1:04:38 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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