The Obese Should Have to Pay More For Airline Tickets

yes they should pay more -it cost more to move them and fat people take up more space- it may not be their fault but they should pay at least for the inconvenience to others

And Tattoo, we're not trying to make them lose weight, we're trying to make them pay a fair share for the weight that they are free to carry. Its a free country, but not free of charge.

And if someone like the guy in the picture wears a wig and one of those pregnancy dresses trying to get a free ride for that protruding gut, he gets arrested and handcuffed in the bathroom stall next to that Senator what's his name. You know who I mean. Pushes his foot over into the prisoner's stall. Good luck, gutty.

EE7011, all you have to do is take a blank Airline Approved Pre Pregnancy weight form with you to your obstetrician and he can certify your pre pregnancy weight. No sweat.

And, most of all, whoever breaks wind on an airplane near you should be pushed out the emergency door with a parachute before he does it again. Mandatory.

Way back there when the Queen of France said "Let them eat cake", she didn't mean three meals a day.

Next, we should adjust medicare premiums by weight of the insured, and their eating, drinking and smoking habits. Why should the healthy have to pay so much for those who invite medical treatment?

Heavy vehicles tear up the highways more than light vehicles. The license fees are adjusted by weight. Why not everything? We can put these figures on our National Identity cards, along with all of the other data that will gradually be added as the years go by.

Also, I think that the dumb and ignorant people ought to be taxed at a higher rate. They cause more damage than smart people just stumbling around and driving wrong.

And people who talk on the cell phone while walking into you in the grocery store and driving, it goes on and on.
We want more justice. Now.

Hey, Airline out there. Want to make a profit? Charge by the pound. Your flights will always be filled with skinny people checking light luggage. Your competitors?? Duh!

There is a one on one relationship between total weight of the passengers and their luggage and the amount of fuel that it takes to lift them off the ground and fly them away. It has nothing to do with whether you like or dislike people because of their eating or bathing habits. I've sat next to skinny people who smelled like a wet saddle blanket, and sometimes as bad as a dog that just rolled in something rotten, and many people of girth who smelled downright good. Don't get mad. Get smart and do what's right by everybody. Charge by the pound. If a percentage of the ticket is not weight sensitive, then charge the first part of the ticket representing that percentage equally to everyone, and then prorate the rest by weight.
As far as hygiene in the next seat is concerned, that's just bad luck and has little prospect of a solution.

Airlines, quit selling tickets by the head. Sell them by the pound. Advertise, "Bargain flight to New York City from San Francisco__Only $X.00 per pound, including total weight of passenger and luggage". It's the only equitable thing to do. The staff can then know exactly how much weight that is to be hauled and not have to guess how much the passengers weigh. We don't see meat sold at less per pound for obese people than skinny people. Why do skinny people have to pay more to fly per pound than obese people?
I know that you won't do it, but if you had started this long ago, maybe you wouldn't have gone bankrupt as the population continued to overeat.

Another reason for airlines to charge more,what will people have to pay for next?? So discriminating against the overweight is ok?? Do you think charging more will make them want to lose weight?? Not everybody wants to be a thin ,and shock horror.....some overweight people are quite happy..

How to squeeze extra money out of people.. "oh your fat you have to pay more". To me this is a pathetic and puts even more pressure on the overwieght to lose weight,when they could be quite happy with how they look,not everybody wants to be thin.

Maybe the higher cost for weight could be a wake-up call for people who really need to lose some weight and just be healthier. In the case of the gluttenous Albert Gore - who espouses one ideal - the frugal use of energy and a fastidious lifestyle - while living like King Farouk - yes - he should not only pay extra, he should be the poster boy in airports for "you cannot get on this ride if you are this big".

I'm skinny, so overweight people almost always intentionally sit beside me on buses, trains, subways, and planes because they know it will give them more space. Then they proceed to spill their extra girth over into my space, taking my armrest and crushing me into the window or the aisle, rendering one of my arms useless for the duration of the journey. Certainly in a perfectly fair world, I would pay a half fare and they would pay 1.5 times the normal fare. Fares are unfair.

I've long thought that the weight limit for airlines should be for the cumulative weight of passenger plus luggage. It seems the fairest way to charge - you pay for exactly what you bring on board, including yourself.

Should the obese pay more? Yes.

Should the obese pay more? Yes.

No doubt, there is a genetic component to obesity, but given the huge increase in the proportion if the population that has grown to tip the scales in the past 30 years, the cultural element now clearly overshadows it.

As the cost of air travel and fuel surcharges has become a prime topic of our national dialogue, the uncomfortable question of what's just is more than an academic exercise. Why should a man who eats sensibly and makes the effort to exercise regularly, who's weight has never gone above 160, be slapped with the same fuel surcharge as a passenger of the same height who, for whatever reason, weighs 100 pounds more? Airlines have different prices for heavier bags. The Post Office and its ilk price transportation of goods by weight, in theory, to equitably pass along their fuel costs. So why, when it comes to human cargo, is it fair for the light to be subsidizing the heavy?