Originally Posted by
RhinoPherret
Deal with it. It is a discussion forum. It is being discussed because it can be.
Not really "thinking outside the box"- more like an excuse to pick on the overweight, and the PC police (PC Police being defined as anyone who is more sensitive than yourself.).
I do feel that your above statement is way off the mark. It's just about weight and pricing. That is kind of important in airline and cargo aircraft.
A thought: Who should subsidize who when it comes to passing along a non-related weight pricing system?
I agree about cargo aircraft- they are usually payload-limited by weight rather than volume. If they charged everyone the same price to ship a box, then the customers with lighter boxes would be subsidizing the the ones with the heavier ones.
The only customers doing the subsidizing on passenger aircraft are the ones paying full fare (mostly business travelers). They make it possible for the rest of the passengers to have lower fares (mostly leisure travelers).
How does a weight based system improve the fare structure? Rather than the passengers that have the highest need (or desire) to fly paying the most, the ones who happen to weigh the most should? I don't understand what this accomplishes.