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Should fatter people pay more on planes?
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Kobun Heat
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Well, technically yes. But of course there's no way such a move would ever actually go unchallenged by fat people. And they have powerful lawyers.
Well, I think you would have to change it from a fat issue to a weight issue. It costs me the same amount to buy a ticket as a little girl, but to the airlines, my 200 pounds cost a lot more than that little girls 50 pounds to fly to the destination. I think it would only be fair to the consumers if people payed based on weight, however I don't think it will ever be possible to do this.
Weight has nothing to do in particular with baggage size really. Having been on a number of flights recently, it's people that tend to entirely ignore any consideration for other passengers and bring on far too many items to store, such as using overhead compartments to put their put their jacket up or refusing to tuck a small bag in the seat in front of them during completely booked flights, that take up the most space. Checking in baggage may not be ideal, especially with the increased rate of lost luggage recently, but it's there for a reason and as long as you take essentials onboard if you can, you should be fine. Forget fat people, inconsiderate assholes should pay more.
Fresh Prince
Banned
You know what you should do wear a fat suit filled with your luggage.
I don't understand what your issue is.snaildog said:
Are you complaining about carry-on luggage size or weight? That has nothing to do with the weight of the other passengers.
Are you complaining about how needing to carry "fat people" causes the aggregate luggage weight limit per passenger to be lower than it might be otherwise? I'd find it hard to believe that you typically take more than 70-75 pounds of luggage on trips.
Are you complaining about having room on the flight? Quite frankly, fat people are only part of your worries. Tall people, or people with very broad shoulders, take up just as much (if not more) room on planes. And, why blame the passengers when most airlines just LOVE to design cramped seating areas on planes?
So what's really going on here?
I think the baggage allowance system is archaic but they haven't found a way to change it without in turn allowing people to rape the post office by carrying a ton of luggage for a fraction of the price it costs to ship by air. 20kg of luggage is a ridiculous limit when, as is stated in the first post, I could have some guy sat next to me who weighs twice as much as me. Even worse is when a child joins you and you get a measly 10kg extra allowance even though they weigh even less!
Agent Dormer
Dirty Drinking Smoker
If you're so heavy you're overflowing, the airline better make sure you paid for my ticket. The seats are bad enough in coach nowadays that the added issue of having someone's fat leak into my seat area is a costant fear I have when flying. Sorry, I just really don't want to get stuck in that position. Most likely I'd request for a new seat or to be moved to a different flight or something, because if I am paying for whatever tiny space there is, it's my space. Not the space for your rolls.
snaildog said:
Well what if somebody didn't like black people? Or Mexicans? How about gays and lesbians? Or people with AIDs?
Actually, you know, you since you have such a GREAT idea, why don't we do it logically? Since the -majority- of America is overweight, why not take anyone who's not fat and ship them off to another country?
Fixed2BeBroken
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Fatty fat FATS!
Mike Works
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Just bring 2 medium bags with you- one filled with all your metal items, one not. Tape the one not filled with anything metal onto your stomach, put a baggy shirt over it, pretend to be fat as you walk through security and onto the plane, then keep one bag at your feet or on your lap during the flight and one, if not both in the overhead storage compartment.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
I wonder if some of you guys would ever go around in real life ranting about the shit you do. You know, take a stand against the blight of people you don't like! Stand up in that airplane and tell all the hideous, ugly fat people, those sub-human creatures which should be wiped from the face of the earth, to PAY YO' DAMN TICkET, OR GO KILL THEMSELVES!
Fight! Fight for, uh, er, whatever the hell your problem is!
Fight! Fight for, uh, er, whatever the hell your problem is!
Mike Works
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Do you go around in real life ranting about the furry artist's agenda?Kaijima said:
And he never called them hideous or ugly.
RonaldoSan
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The world is going down the shitter...
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Folder
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Having stepped off a trans-Atlantic flight some four hours ago I can confidently say yes, they should. If you don't fir in the seat, pay for two seats, an upgrade or don't fly until you've saved up.
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Folder
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I'll post an image here tomorrow disproving that.Nerevar said:
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Folder
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:lolkpop100 said:The irony would be if those fat people that were forced to buy a 2nd seat were entitled to a second meal
SonicMegaDrive
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Some creatures were not meant to fly.
Some were. This creature was meant to fly:
As was this one:
But I'll be damned if mother nature intended these creatures to fly:
Some were. This creature was meant to fly:
As was this one:
But I'll be damned if mother nature intended these creatures to fly:
Folder said:I'll post an image here tomorrow disproving that.
well, under FAA regulations, they're supposed to force you to buy another seat. I guess some lazy flight attendants might not, but it's what the FAA dictates. If your flight was transatlantic, it might've originated in a foreign country unused to fatasses like we are, and thus unprepared to deal with the massive girth Americans bring onto these planes.
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