Should overweight passengers have to pay more for plane tickets?

Wol62 · 2024-10-16T12:48:42-04:00

Travel - Should overweight passengers have to pay more for plane tickets? Some airlines does this, is... (67 replies).

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Some airlines does this, is this discrimination or do you support it as the more you weigh, the more room you take up. The more fuel the plane will burn etc.
is this just common sense or is it way too unpopular.

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Samoa airline starts pay-by-weight pricing for international flights
Fili Sagapolutele and Nick Perry, The Associated Press
April 3, 2013

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa - A tiny Samoa airline is giving passengers a big reason to lose weight: tickets sold not by the seat, but by the kilogram.

Samoa Air planned Wednesday to start pricing its first international flights based on the weight of its passengers and their bags. Depending on the flight, each kilogram (2.2 pounds) costs 93 cents to $1.06.