An Asian airline has started the ball rolling for charging people based on their weight. The theory behind it isn't that bad as it would mean you would never have a baggage allowance as you just pay for a weight allowance for your seat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-22001256

 

glad i booked my holiday already,i weigh 400LBS so it would have cost me £££

 

This is sooooo right, I stood at the front of a Ryanair check in queue and had to pay £35 odd quid because I was two kilo's over my allowance and the "big fat bird" behind me must have been 20 stone who probably paid sod all.

 

Sound

 

How's that the woman's fault you can't weigh your case properly?

 

You're right, I should have taken the chocolate and cake out of my case and eaten it

 

thats just fattist

 

 

it wouldnt be so bad but my mrs is 24 stone.............. the skinny bitch

 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, who am I to say, by police report when I got done for a small number plate said " he was a friendly faced man with a beer belly"

 

I don't know which bit is a joke her weight or the fact your have a mrs

 

well she loves me...................

 

I'd rather a surgharge for ugly people. Now't worse than sitting next to a minger on a long flight.

 

Sent a guy away with work and we had to pay for two seats he was so big.

Does make a mockery with baggage allowance but nothing about weight of passenger.

 

By the sound of it that's what she did

 

...or smelly people, or screaming (but surprisingly light) children - yup, "profile based" ticketing could be quite interesting

mb

 

Smokers shouldnt be permitted! !

 

In all fairness I think it would be wrong to charge according to a person's weight for an airline seat.

Les

 

If they charge by weight as proposed, are they going to install differing sized seats to accomodate skinny/normal/fat people? Will they just allocate seats as they do now?

I'm big-boned (fat b'stard) and 6'3" and its not the width of the seating that affects me, its the fact that once sat I'm wedged behind the seat in front due to length of my thigh (clarified for anyone who thought it would be me belly).......

 

You could always upgrade to business class

I recently travelled with someone who ended up punching the guys seat in front of him becuase he had the audacity to recline his seat

Needless to say I won't be travelling with him Again, ever



At last we're headed in the right direction. Rail and bus next

 

At last, a form of fat tax.