Pay-as-you-weigh air fares urged

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It has been suggested heavier passengers would pay more for their plane tickets

It may only have a slim chance of succeeding but a pay-as-you-weigh airline pricing scheme has been suggested.

Heavier passengers would pay more for their plane tickets and lighter ones less under plans put forward by a Norwegian professor.

Writing in this month's Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management publication, Dr Bharat P Bhatta said weight and space should be taken into account when airlines price their tickets.

Dr Bhatta, of the Sogn og Fjordane University College in Norway, has put forward three proposals.

Fare according to actual weight: Charging passengers according to how much they and their belongings weigh, fixing a rate for kilograms per passenger so that a person weighing 60kg (132lbs or nine stone 6lbs) pays half the airfare of a 120kg (264lbs or 18 stone 12lbs) person;

Base fare minus or plus an extra charge: This option involves charging a fixed base rate, with an additional charge for heavier passengers to cover the extra costs. Every passenger could have a different fare according to this option;

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[Canker_Canison]

Making it easier for airlines to rip people off even more.
Large people already have to pay more if they can't fit in a single seat. They have to pay for two seats.

What about offsetting luggage allowance? Yeah, I'm a large american from Texas, but I only have a carry on.

[mark8393]

I think it's a good shout. Instead of just weighing luggage, they should way passenger with it as we'll, if totals over a certain set rate, you pay extra for every kilo. If my luggage ever over I have to pay extra, so make the fat lard arses pay more

[DOUGALMCD]

It may only have a slim chance of succeeding
Pardon the pun sj
So we should just have a fat queue and a thin queue then short ass queue and too tall queue
I forgot about the guy with a hump queue your born with it and your heavier so pay more
I for one am amazed at the excuses companies make to charge people more money. I am even more amazed at the amount of gullible people who swallow it.

[Meat-Head]

More fat more fuel used less AMPG.

SO yes good idea. 3 ques. Fat thin. Dk members

[caveman_nige]

behold the jabba tax

Samoa Air boss defends charging passengers by weight

The head of Samoa Air has defended the airline's decision to start charging passengers according to their weight.
Chris Langton told Australia's ABC Radio that it was "the fairest way of travelling".
Rather than pay for a seat, passengers pay a fixed price per kilogram, which varies depending on the route length.
Samoa Air flies domestically and to American Samoa. It is thought the move could encourage other airlines to introduce similar policies.
"Airlines don't run on seats, they run on weight, and particularly the smaller the aircraft you are in the less variance you can accept in terms of the difference in weight between passengers," Mr Langton told ABC radio.


"Anyone who travels at times has felt they have been paying for half of the passenger next to them."
Under the new model, Mr Langton described how some families with children were now paying cheaper fares.
"There are no extra fees in terms of excess baggage or anything - it is just a kilo is a kilo is a kilo," he said.
Air Samoa's rates range from $1 (65p) to around $4.16 per kilogram. Passengers pay for the combined weight of themselves and their baggage.
Mr Langton also suggested that the move had helped promote health awareness in Samoa, which has one of the world's highest levels of obesity.
"People generally are becoming much more weight conscious. That's a health issue in some areas," he told ABC Radio.
Mr Langton said he believed that charging by weight was "the concept of the future."
"People generally are bigger, wider and taller than they were 50 years ago," he said. "The industry will start looking at this."


Source:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-22001256

[Meat-Head]

Post office charge by weight, sweet shops do, washingpowder

less weight less fuel needed quicker travel time

wounder how much extra they make off fat folks