[Poohbah]

If you make an airline haul that person around at no extra cost, in a business where paid seat occupancy rates are EVERYTHING, how are you not penalizing the business?

[Hunble]

If you make an airline haul that person around at no extra cost, in a business where paid seat occupancy rates are EVERYTHING, how are you not penalizing the business?

FALSE

The operational costs to an airline are FUEL and salaries. Even if the aircraft if totally empy, they will end up paying about the same amount.

But you are correct:

"Seat occupancy rates are EVERYTHING."

And this airline just lost our business. Not just for a single flight, but all flights in the future.

[Houmatt]

If you make an airline haul that person around at no extra cost, in a business where paid seat occupancy rates are EVERYTHING, how are you not penalizing the business?

Aren't you forgetting something? In order for any business to succeed, you need something called, "clientele". No customers, no business.

If a passenger is being unruly, or just being an bleep, they can be removed from the plane. But why treat a passenger in a negative manner when they are not doing that at all? That is what you are doing when you are asking a person who is only overweight to pay for two seats.