I just got back from holiday, at the airport you get charged per kilo if you bag is overweight, I am of slim build through regular exercise and healthy diet if my bag is overwiehgt I get charged but it's OK to be grossly overweight and pay no extra for the plane to have to use extra fuel to power their fat lardy arses skyward ? Pay a fat tax is what I say,, what do you think ?
2006-08-22 05:28:17 · 28 answers · asked by banditblue1200 4 in Travel ➔ Air Travel
they should pay more tax full stop, a burden on the NHS
2006-08-22 05:34:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
The problem is not that fat people want to fly, it's that airlines don't apply excess baggage charges fairly.
Case in point: I'm a keen scuba diver who's 1.83 m but weighs around 65 kg—that's about 6'1" and 140 lb to you Yanks—and yes, that IS normal and healthy (for me, anyway)! I get charged for 10–15 kg excess baggage if I want to take my own scuba gear (NOT including tank and weights) on holiday with me, in addition to clothes etc. (rather than having to put up with badly-fitting/poorly-maintained rental gear wherever I'm going), even though I and my baggage together total less than 100 kg (220 lb).
Whereas a golfer/skier gets to check their clubs/skis in as sporting equipment, and doesn't have to pay excess on it if they've arranged it ahead of time. Most airlines still don't routinely give scuba divers the same benefit, despite the fact that there is a burgeoning market for dive travel, it's roughly the same demographic engaging in the sport, and at the end of the day, scuba gear is life support equipment, which golf clubs/skis aren't.
But this is a b***h at the airlines, not fat people. You can't charge people extra for being overweight, they have enough problems in their daily lives without that. Next you'll be saying that all those wheelchair users should leave their damn heavy wheelchairs at home.
Get a grip.
2006-08-22 06:13:13 · answer #2 · answered by tjs282 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
What extremely receives on my nerves is even as i'm seated next to someone who refuses the actual undeniable truth that via their extra body mass, they prefer to purchase an additional seat. and so that they don't favor to placed down the arm relax. So the entire flight i'm scrunched hostile to the wall (I usually get window seats). fortunately this has in ordinary words befell a pair situations, yet i think like it became incorrect how I had to pay a similar volume for the cost ticket as them, yet I were given 1/2 a seat and they were given a seat and a 1/2.
2016-12-01 00:08:40 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Unless a person needs two seats to sit in you pay for the seat you are going to be in for the flight. Airlines average 300lbs per passenger to start off with. This means they rarely go over that limit (and the difference is made up in other passengers).
2006-08-22 05:36:41 · answer #4 · answered by TBRMInsanity 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps not by weight but maybe by girth. Every flight could have some higher price seats that have been widened for the larger lady or gent.
Ditto for bus and train journeys.
It is an unfair system and I have a lot of sympathy for overweight people but you have to draw the line somewhere.
2006-08-22 05:37:55 · answer #5 · answered by John D 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It has been known for some overweight people to have an extra seat requested, due to unable to sit on a standard size seating. Therefore, if they do have an extra seat, then yes i think they should pay for that extra seat.
2006-08-22 05:36:54 · answer #6 · answered by lonely as a cloud 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
While I find your "fat lardy arses" comment very offensive, I believe most airlines have a policy in place that says if you cannot fit in between the armrests of a seat, then you have to buy 2 seats. I don't know if they enforce it though. I agree they should.
2006-08-22 05:46:04 · answer #7 · answered by basketcase88 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Its called discrimination i think! Some airlines do charge overweight people for 2 seats as its a safer and comfier way to travel for them!
2006-08-22 06:11:03 · answer #8 · answered by arly barly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does one pay for a seat, or for the right to fly? If it's just for the right to fly, then it doesn't matter if your fat butt takes up four seats - we all pay the same. But since babes in arms fly for free, this suggests you pay for a seat, and anyone needing two seats should pay for two.
2006-08-22 06:39:03 · answer #9 · answered by Dunrobin 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes! I had the misfortune to sit next to a lardarse on a 7 hour flight. He was so gross that he could just about get his waist in between the arm rests and the rest of him hung over into my seat space.
2006-08-22 06:20:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No they should not they should be treated as equally as thin people ... Or mayber the airlines should build special seats for them I cant believe how much discrimination some people on this give out ..
2006-08-22 05:38:59 · answer #11 · answered by kelliannex 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋