Anj1364 Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 They could have cut-outs of people that you have to fit through to get a certain fare, like they do with letters and letter-boxes ? :hihi::hihi: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anj1364 Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Reading this thread has brightened up what was a miserable Friday afternoon at work Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shelby46 Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 I'm overweight, but I agree that there should be something taken into account because of extra fuel etc. I can't see how it could be implemented without discrimination or embarrassment though. Imagine the extra cost if the plane was full of large people and no skinny ones! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alien Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I'm overweight, but I agree that there should be something taken into account because of extra fuel etc. I can't see how it could be implemented without discrimination or embarrassment though. Imagine the extra cost if the plane was full of large people and no skinny ones! Cost isn't the issue..it's whether the plane is capable of building up enough speed to get in the air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockjaw Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Gordon Burns (he's doing BBC News North West now!). .... as he has been doing, on and off, for the last 30 odd years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem1st Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 They weigh luggage and charge you if your over the limit. Maybe they should measure your height and give you a combined limit for passenger + luggage. Say BMI = 25, then the average weight for a man/woman of that size + luggage allowance. They could weigh you when you go through security. Weighing scales bang after/before the metal detectors, computerised so any monkey could use them. It would save you having to go get the luggage weighed elsewhere and any weight discrepancy could be passed off as heavy luggage. Slap a ticket on the luggage, wander through and pop your luggage on conveyor belt, go to your plane, then your off. The bbc website had an article about encouraging a healthy weight could save society money in the long term. Could maybe shorten the waiting times at airports too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blockhead Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 I have just heard that Emirates Airline is reducing the weight of its onflight magazine to reduce weight. They claim that by halving the weight of the magazine they will save 685 tonnes of fuel per plane per year. This represents a fuel saving of $500 million per annum for a small airline like Emirates. The figures appear astonishing as the magazine cannot weigh a great deal in the first place. However it just shows that airlines are getting more concious of weight savings. Recently I fell foul of bagage allowance. Flying as a couple with one case we were forced to pay excess bagage even though we were well below the combined individual bagage allowance. It wasn't cheap either and was particularly galling when some people on the flight were obviosly heavier than our combined weight plus all our lugage. If weight is such an issue then why aren't passengers weighed before takeoff and charged accordingly? It must be an increasing danger that a plane cannot get off the ground because of the weight of the passengers, yet I am unaware that any attempt is made to establish this aspect of takeoff weight. Cabin luggage and hold luggage is the only weights that airlines use to end up with a gross weight, having to weight all passengers would be a complete waste ot time, after weighing people, would they have to reduce their hold luggage and even strip off to meet some sort of total weight allowance. My wife and myselk have travelled with one suit case which was over the individual allowance but we have never been penalised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie2308 Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 What about a reduction for kids then? I had to pay full price for my 4 year old and he's a skinny little thing that would probably fit in the overhead luggage compartment!! Not that I'd do that of course;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr. pixel Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 story seems 33% of 100,000 people polled said it would be an viable cost-cutting measure for obese passengers to be charged almost double for a seat on their planes...fair or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anarchist Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Wouldn't your thread title be better if it said. Obese passengers not charged double? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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