I know this might seem Fatty-ist, but please bear with me for a few moments and you might see where I'm coming from:
1) Airlines calculate the fuel requirement based on the weight of passengers and luggage - therefore heavier passengers mean more fuel is needed.
2) Larger passengers need more space (for obvious reasons), so in the same flight less passengers could be fitted in, which means less profit for the Airline.
Yet, despite these two points, plane tickets cost us the same whether we weigh 8st or 20st - how is that fair. (You wouldn't pay the same postage fee for a large or small parcel, so what's different for people?)
I know it wouldn't go down well with heavier people, but surely some kind of scale (pardon the pun) would be fairer for everyone?
(This proposal would also have the benefit of helping the current obesity problem by adding in a financial incentive as well......we could even do the same for Taxis, Trains, and then there's the environmental impact....
2006-09-19
02:38:15
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Dilbert Fan of Essex
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