Icmeler Online Holiday Forum & Reviews - Turkey

I wondered when they would start charging extra for overweight passengers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ogram.html

Don't see how they can monitor this unless passengers are weighed at the airport and if you've put weight on you pay extra and if you've lost you'd get a refund. Ideas like this would cost a fortune in admin costs. I double checked to make sure the article hadn't been written on 1st April.

Well if they do start to charge extra for what is classed as overweight passengers ( who will say what it starts at) I hope then that they also start to give a reduction and a vast one for children as that would then save families some money

Cant see it happening in the UK,(except of coarse Ryan Air),this idea comes from a Norwegian professor who no one outside of his field has ever heard of . Samoa of coarse is a different matter,most are of a larger than average size.Rog

i'll leave my bum and 1/2 a leg at the book in gate then xx

Does it mean that heavier people will then get a bigger seat. I'm 6ft1 and 20 stone of mostly muscle and the seats on most planes are not wide enough for me across my shoulders. I would happily pay for a wider seat, that is my choice but please be very careful, heavy does not always mean fat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do we also levvy a tax on overly tall people and where will the stereotyping and discrimination end, charging parents for carrying a pushchair or even disabled people for needing wheelchair assistance.

Anyway rant over, 37 days and counting.