It pays to be slim.

[EddieM]

People should also be fined for being ugly and badly dressed too.

Excuse me while I file for bankruptcy...

Queue jumpers, can't stand 'em!!

 

[longdogs]

When we checked in at Orlando airport, we had two suitcases. One was over weight by a few pounds and one was under weight by a few pounds. The t**t at the check-in made me undo both suitcases and swap the items around to make the correct weights - despite my protests that thet were both going on the same plane anyway.

I think charging someone extra if they take up two seats is fair enough - if the flight is fully booked of course but can't see how a person's weight would affect the amount of fuel used when they dump most of it anyway.

 

[noseall]

can't see how a person's weight would affect the amount of fuel used when they dump most of it anyway.

Fuel dumping is rare and a last resort and not all airliners can do it only the larger ones.

Fly a thousand journeys with two hundred fat people and the same with two hundred thin people then do the maths.

 

[JBR]

When we checked in at Orlando airport, we had two suitcases. One was over weight by a few pounds and one was under weight by a few pounds. The t**t at the check-in made me undo both suitcases and swap the items around to make the correct weights - despite my protests that thet were both going on the same plane anyway.

Surely you're not expecting common sense these days.

 

[noseall]

The t**t at the check-in made me undo both suitcases and swap the items around to make the correct weights - despite my protests that thet were both going on the same plane anyway.

Prolly a H&S issue cus someone has to lift 'em.

 

[Brigadier]

I've said this for years - all adults allowed, say, 110kg total (bodyweight plus luggage) in their fare. Pay extra for any extra. Simple, and fair.

So somebody that is very tall & will be particularly uncomfortable in airline seats anyway, should pay more than the shorty's who the seats are designed for then? I think not

Weight costs fuel - tallness, in itself, doesn't.

We went to Mexico years ago, and repeatedly over the course of our stay, the rep kept going on about not overloading on the way back, because the airport staff were draconian.

When the time came to leave, we went to the airport, and stood in line. Turned out they didn't have weighing facilities at all.
So, being that way inclined (awkward), I asked the rep who was flitting around while we queued, how could they know that the plane had enough fuel to get back, if they didn't know how much luggage was on it.
Ahhhh - they'll just fill her up to the brim, she said.
I then pointed out that the flight back was 10 1/2 hrs, and the fully-laden plane's range was 11 1/2 hrs. And fuel weighs something, so you need fuel just to carry fuel.
I know they build in tolerance, and as it happened, we didn't ditch off Ireland, but there would surely come a point where too much luggage would shorten the range enough (especially if the pilots didn't actually know how much the plane's take-off weight was), that the plane couldn't get there....