Should overweight people pay excess on airplanes.?

Question

If you take more than 20 kilo in luggage so why not large people ?

Answer 1

Yes! Yes! Yes! why should I pay excess baggage when so many people weigh twice as much as I do?n Weigh people and luggage together!!!

Answer 2

On balance - and I realise this is a sensitive issue - yes. The reason for saying this is that economy airline seats are restrictive and uncomfortable at the best of times. So I think that airlines should accept a mimimum seat pitch - although I accept this may make some flights more expensive. That would cut out the average "slightly overweight" person from feeling wedged in (I am not thinnist - I am overweight myself) - but prevent the seriously obese - it is true that more weight burns more aviation fuel - I think that if it wasn't such a sensitive issue the airlines would have started charging for excess passenger pounds years ago. In the UK at the moment we have a rising problem with obesity - we are the most obese nation in europe - and there are many state inititives set at getting us to eat more healthily. I think that some form of punative tax (and incentive) to slim down in time for the holiday - in order to avoid excessive charges - would actually be in the interests of everyone's public health. For those who are genuinely obese for genuine medical conditions, you should be able to receive a medical exemption certificate, in the same way that you can to take sharps on board now (for diabetics etc). Don't want to offend anyone, because I am sensitive about it myself - but I think it is a solution.

Answer 3

I think it all depends why the airplanes are making the overweight people pay for an extra seat. If you look at it from a safety point, then yes, they should pay for the extra seat. It might not be their fault they are overweight but that doesn't mean they should endanger other passangers by trying to cram themselves into a single seat. And just as you pointed out, we all have to pay for "excess baggage" weighing more than 20 kilos, then why shouldn't others with their "excess baggage" do the same?

Answer 4

yes. Aircraft are restriced by weight. Each seat is alloted "x" amount of weight. If the passenger count and the weight gets too high, peoples bags have to be kicked off and that is one of the biggest reasons for bags not making it with the passengers. So basically if you are grossly overweight, you are taking up needed weight for someone else's bags, which will not make the flight. I'm a pilot and I have to kick bags off every day because we are overweight. I'm not saying it's right, but thats the way it is. The more the plane weighs, the more fuel we burn. The more we burn, the more it costs per seat. The costs are passed on to all of the customers, regardless of their weight.

Answer 5

Extremely large people have to buy 2 seats - and they are not baggage they are people so why should they pay excess for their weight when they already have the embarrassment of 2 seats - your question is probably discriminative to overweight people - don't be so rude and don't go presuming Im overweight, cos I only need the one seat - hope you get fat one day

Answer 6

sure. as long because of the fact the seats they pay for are thoroughly and thoroughly theirs, and no skinny human beings attempt to occupy them. because of the indisputable fact that would not be good, might it? And the thin human beings do no longer start up whining while they are able to't get flights, of direction. The airlines might respond to the extra advantageous rigidity for seats via making an investment in new planes and putting all those new birds interior the air. Then the exhausts might hammer much extra on the surroundings, accelerating international warming. on the comparable time, call for for gasoline might set off an improve in fees, which might in turn instantaneous the airlines to bypass the further costs directly to the tip person. internet consequence? skinny eco-vandals paying contained in the direction of the nostril to get airborne. stunning. only flippin' stunning...

Answer 7

Just like the infant rule, if there is a seat available an overweight person should not have to pay for an additional seat.

Answer 8

yes, yes,yes!!!!! I sat on a flight from NY to San Fran. with a lady who sat in my lap. I couldn't put the arm rest down between our seats. She sat on me. I was very uncomfortable. The airline did nothing. She or I should have been moved or compensated!!! I am not a small person so I am not being critical or cruel about being over weight. I have had to pay for an over weight bag and that's the way it is.

Answer 9

A lot of airlines do make overweight people pay for two seats, especially is they flop over on the person sitting next to them.

Answer 10

No they shouldn't be charged extra $. The airline company that issued an air ticket has a contractual obligation to transport the passenger (overweighted or not). It is the airline company that has to provide an acceptable comfort for every passenger (overweighted or not).

Answer 11

I think it would be unfair as some people are overweight due to health reasons. It would be difficult to prove otherwise if this was what they claimed. You must be a thin person to even think of a question like that - or is it that you have recently been charged excess baggage.