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As airlines look for ways to cope with skyrocketing fuel bills, some bloggers and letter-writers are suggesting a radical idea: airline passengers should pay the pound, with weight-based fares or surcharges (see this week’s story). Our question this week: Should passengers be charged for air travel based on their weight, like cargo is? Would that be logical? Would it be fair? Post your comments here.
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RE: Should passenger weight affect fares?
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AnonymousOct 11 2008, 9:37 AM EDT
"If you sit in the seat and are taking any of MY seat... then you should pay for part of my ticket... I DON'T take up more than my seat and I'm sick of cows sitting next to me that can't fit into their own seat, encroching into my space. Just because you don't use a seat belt extender, does your butt fit into YOUR seat only? If the answer is NO, then order a salad and don't be pissed off when you have to pay more money because you take up more space." oh so true! I have been stopped for being 3kg over baggage, and had to transfer some stuff to hand luggage(where's the sense there - it's still weight on the plane!!) whilst standing behind someone probably half as heavy again as me... seems ridiculously unfair. In a western world of escalating size, impending diabetes and general inactivity, it's time the political correctness brigade stopped insisting that there can be no discrimination against fat, and that there starts to be a pendulum swing towards social unacceptability of being grossly obese.
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