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Old 29 Dec 16, 09:45 AM  
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Very difficult. If overweight people can be charged extra then those underweight people will want a refund. There has to be an "ideal" weight that it is all based on. But then surely underweight people can balance out some overweight people ...

Having a total weight of the people in the booking plus their luggage would work maybe. Then the weight is averaged out between them all. Even so it can still be rather a humiliating experience for some people if this is all done in public. You can imagine some in the waiting line making horrible comments such as "bet they will get charged extra" etc etc ... then you will get the families that perhaps argue it saying the scales are wrong etc etc ...

Then there is me, I am well well overweight ... but if we were weighed as a family everyone else would balance me out, so we would not get charged extra ... that would upset some other people ...

I can see so many problems with weighing and paying ...
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Old 29 Dec 16, 09:52 AM  
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I remember the days of 2 cases per person in economy, now I am possibly wrong but wasn't this reduced to allow more cargo ?
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Being over weight myself I would feel violated and discriminated against if I was forced to be weighed before taking a flight.
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Old 29 Dec 16, 10:27 AM  
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I remember the days of 2 cases per person in economy, now I am possibly wrong but wasn't this reduced to allow more cargo ?
Exactly.

The average weight per person has also not been increased in over 30 years. People are (generally) bigger than they were then so the first thing that needs to be done is that.
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How long will check in take if every passenger has to be weighed or will they just pick out the fat people to scrutinise for a weight check? Can of worms springs to mind.
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I remember the days of 2 cases per person in economy, now I am possibly wrong but wasn't this reduced to allow more cargo ?
Nope... done so people pay for the 2nd bag. If it was for cargo no one would be able to pay for 2nd, 3rd etc bags.

Also less work for the baggage handlers so don't have to pay them so much for their services.
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All sounds like a load of rubbish to me, if every single person wanted to pay for a second bag the airline would happily take your money yet your telling me a few extra overweight people would cause the plane to crash?!
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Old 29 Dec 16, 12:08 PM  
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Being over weight myself I would feel violated and discriminated against if I was forced to be weighed before taking a flight.
But there would be no discrimination if every person and their luggage was weighed.

To be honest I'm surprised that it doesn't already happen. A baseline of say 100kg, and extra paid for each 20kg over. That would be a greater incentive for the holiday diet, stop excessive luggage, and holiday spends would be reduced (less food and shopping ).

A typical family of 4 would easily be within the 400kg allowance, even me with my huge bottom.

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Any system that goes on weight would be open to abuse - want to be the first airline to charge extra for a wheelchair, a pram, tall skinny athletic family over short fat one? No... so we will have exceptions - and wherever there are exceptions there are people willing to abuse them and to push all definitions to the edge.
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Let me say again, I don't think larger people should be charged more. I'd have certainly been in this category in 2003 at 23 stone.

My thoughts are more about distribution. It's a big subject, the FAA manual on this runs to 216 pages right now. I would not be against anonymous weighing as long as it was that.
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