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A Samoan Airline Now Charges Passengers By Body Weight
Bad news for those carrying a few extra pounds: Samoa Air has become the world's first airline to introduce a pricing policy which charges passengers by body weight. Time to diet. (gizmodo.com) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Way overdue Pan Am, TWA and many more airlines might still be in business had they the Balls to implement this policy!
Funny everybody must put himself in a diet because maybe some more airlines would introduce this policy. Remember we are living in an economy of savings.
Boyd
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hahahahahahahahahaha!
If you want to adjust fares based on the size/weight of the passenger then I think there's an implicit obligation to also adjust the seat size and spacing accordingly.
Why? I'm not challenging you, I'm just not sure I see the reasoning. (Just think, the airline could offer various size seats and charge an upgrade fee depending on what size you select.) Wow. Money pouring in all over the place.
I think the obligation is implicit because the justification most airlines have been using for the current narrow seats and shallow spacing is that they need to get as many fares as possible to remain profitable. However, if they charge more based on weight/size that kind of blows that argument out of the water. Also, to not adjust the seating based on size/weight if you're being charged extra for it means that you're paying a sliding scale for greater discomfort, which is pretty silly.
I get it. But, maybe they just aren't profitable enough? (Of course that might be like saying how much fun is too much, isn't it.)
PS - I don't believe the idea is that you'd be charged more for space, but rather because of fuel consumption based on weight. But then who knows. I worked for just a few months in Revenue Management and still don't understand the formula.