For everyone who has had a long haul flight next to the mahossive sweaty bloke

Please please let it take root and grow

About time I reckon. 100kgs per person, including luggage. There are so few advantages to being small !

I weigh 100kg, without clothes. And I’m not fat, I lost the padding round the middle I reckon the least I could get down to healthily would be 90.

hels are you a tiny person?

For everyone who has had a long haul flight next to the mahossive sweaty bloke

that’s no way to talk about CFH

Shower curtain rings, anyone?

I once flew back from Florence, and as we were boarding the plane, an Aircraft Mechanic was fettling the seat next to me. He was actually removing the armrest between the centre and window seat, to make a large bench seat. The last person on was an enormous whale of a woman, who must have been at least 35 stone. She sat right next to me and proceeded to struggle around for 20 mins to take off her trainers…ewww.

Another woman across the aisle then tapped me on the shoulder and asked me if I’d mind swapping with her son as he was young and they hadn’t got seats next to each other. I’ve never moved so fast.

I guess in a round about way I’m saying this has my full support.

If I have to pay in accordance with my size then goddamnit I want leg room!

Tall people will weigh more than shorter people so how is being penalised for something out of your control fair?
Obviously you can do something about being a biffa but not a lanky.

So you want to pay by weight AND height then? Even better 😉

^^^^^^ 😀
That is all.

What they need is a person sized…

how is being penalised for something out of your control fair

Like being overweight?

So people will have to get weighed in? Can’t see this taking off… But if it does I’d like there be an alarm that goes off for real heavy weights please.

Pik n Mix – Member
Tall people will weigh more than shorter people so how is being penalised for something out of your control fair?
Obviously you can do something about being a biffa but not a lanky.

The cost to the airline is directly related to weight though. It’s not being penalised, it’s just the way it is.
As a tall person myself, I don’t feel victimised that I have to pay for twice as much food as some other people.

I do.

But then I am a staggering hungry person. The downside of this is children will be cheap, and so according to market forces planes will full of children, kicking the backs of seats, crying, being… you know, children.

Can’t see this taking off

Like what you did there

I like this idea, it will make taking my kids on holiday miles cheaper as the only weigh 15kg and 24kg! bring it on! flights full of small kids… paying less…especially on long haul yay! 🙂

how is being penalised for something out of your control fair

What like subsidising fat folks like I do now you mean?

Hmmmm, I think Samoans are ginormas though aren’t they? They come near the top in every survey regarding obesity levels, and I think they’re talking smaller aircraft where the weight makes a bigger difference.

TallShort people will weigh moreless than shortertaller people so how is being penalised for something out of your control fair?

See what I did there?

Great idea – I’m sure planes will be a much happier place once they are full of passengers who haven’t eaten anything for 48 hours.

Especially if you further enhance their mood by publicly humiliating them at the checkWeigh In desk.

It could be combined with a weight watchers style congratulations when people weight a few pounds than the last time they flew.

The price is unlikely to be dramatically different unless someone really needs two seats then they need to pay twice the amount of a norm.

Do you guys even read these posts? I clearly said you can do something about being overweight and I’m well up for charging the fatties. Tall people however will get penalised for something that they can’t do anything about.

tipping the scales at a mammoth 67 kg it is a yes for me 😉

I guess planes fly by weight so it is not that unreasonable. Perhaps some banding to make it fairer?

I’m 5ft nothing. Time for some revenge on all you buggers who can reach things in cupboards and see out of the back of the car properly to reverse ! I need to stand on a box to use the peep hole on the front door.

I got sat next to a biffer once, when I was down at 50kgs. (er not that small any more) I might be small but I can make a lot of noise, and his fat was hanging right over into my seat. They moved me without too much fuss, I think they were just chancing it.

And you could have a special area with mini seats for kids. Sound proof it and pump sedatives in. The airlines would fit even more people in this way. Or you could just put them in the hold.

This has my support. Let’s face it, costing differences will be relatively minor for most healthy adults & when travelling even as a couple, will balance out against standard ticket prices. If travelling with kids, then there should be a benefit. Maybe if Berm Bandit had to pay a full ticket price for a 2 year old child, then have the airline squeeze (quite literally) someone into the next seat & spill across half of your childs seat & be grumpy about the fact that your child bumped into them (in the seat you’ve paid for), then perhaps that would alter your opinion?
Mid -flight after much aggro & child unable to settle as so squashed into one side of seat, I offered to help the “gentleman” consume his lunch, tray & all if he didn’t shut up & move.
If the airline were to state he had to have two seats & they were paid for, then he can “spread” all he wants on his seats. If paying by weight only, then stick to your own seat.

As someone who even at racing weight and 7% body fat was still 80kg I’m really trying to be outraged by this, but I can’t! It just makes sense – like it or lump it, it costs more to heft me across the planet than it does some skinny dwarf. Passenger body weight does make a mockery of all this weighing baggage and being charged for an extra kg when some gezzer is packing 30kg of extra pies around their middle and not paying for it.

edit – but if I’m going to pay for my weight I’ll damn well expect a bit more space! Seats designed like those gauge things they used to measure your feet in the shoe shop so we all get the same amount of space around us!

I’m 5ft nothing. Time for some revenge on all you buggers

Fine, you can put your own damn bags in the overhead lockers then 😉

I need to stand on a box to use the peep hole on the front door.

Why don’t you simply drill a new peephole lower down?

Why don’t you simply drill a new peephole lower down?

I imagine it’s quite hard to identify people from their navel.

periscope?

I think for a passenger aircraft (airbus 300 those sorts of things) most airlines use an averaged weight of 100kg anyway and even then it’s less than 20% of the weight of the plane at takeoff. It’s really not that big a deal on bigger airplanes. If it was the airlines would have done something.

The peepholes use an extremely wide angle ‘fish eye’ type lens, so this wouldn’t be a problem. It certainly isn’t a problem for my mum, who I did exactly this for after the new door she had fitted inexplicably had the peephole about 6″ from the top of the door. So, about the eyeline of a lanky 6’3/4″ person.

Junkyard – Member
tipping the scales at a mammoth 67 kg it is a yes for me

Fatty

I was joking, for a start navels are ~ 3.5 ft from the ground. (except hels which will be about 2 :D)

How about an alternative travel solution for the ‘very large boned’:

Do you get weighed on the return journey as well ❓
After a week in Egypt you could be in-line for a big discount on the return leg. But a trip to Disneyworld could be more expensive than you expected. 🙂

If we really want to promote healthiness, then surely link the price to BMI. And charge more for people who are either too fat, or too thin.

Mind you, I’d like to see the airline person who had to force folk onto the scales… Need one of those armoured cubicles 🙂

Can we average out the weight between parties? If so I can bring a few of you child sized “men” to sit next to me.

😉