Weighing and paying on planes.

[AndyJ]

As this issue popped up in the news again, I read through a few links and have changed my opinion.

I used to be against.

A quick Google will show up how pilots calculate fuel and weight ratios. So much for men, women and children. One big mistake was a flight of burly millatry guys who bent the average so far the plane crashed hard, and that's not alone.

While I don't think charging more is fair, good weight distribution makes sense.

Thoughts?

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Highly emotive subject but I am sure Pilots have a ready reckoner.

I suspect airlines in the Pacific catchment area have a different set of rules

en.wikipedia/wiki/Obesity_in_the_Pacific

[WhereIBelong]

it is an emotive subject and I am against it.

If done by weight alone - why should someone genetically tall pay more than someone genetically shorter. (I have 2 daughters - the size 4 5'10 tall one weighs more than the size 8 5'4 one)

[mazzie]

A plane carries a whole lot more than just passengers too. Miscalculating the odd passenger that doesnt fit into the "average" isnt going to be the reason for a plane crash.

[EssexSue]

On a Florida flight I bet there are a lot more under average weights than over.

[AndyJ]

Originally Posted by mazzie

A plane carries a whole lot more than just passengers too. Miscalculating the odd passenger that doesnt fit into the "average" isnt going to be the reason for a plane crash.

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This was my view too, until you look over air crash reports.

[mazzie]

Originally Posted by AndyJ

This was my view too, until you look over air crash reports.

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I hear all about them, I live with an aircraft engineer

[snowbelle]

I am overweight myself and had to be weighed for a Cesna flight to the Uranium mines in Australia and it was a little embarrassing!

I make no excuses for my weight and know its my issue to lose it, but I can see it opening a whole new can of 'human rights' worms.

Some of the biggest people I have ever seen in my life were on an Ethiopian
airlines flight.
And I have flown over 500 hundred times.
Its a very difficult subject to address but if it gets to the stage when other people are endangered it has to be looked into.

[archibald]

I think weighing people with their luggage is the way forward, although maybe by booking group or family rather than individuals to average things out a bit. An excess baggage charge for each kg over seems fair. As a family of 4 we fly with a combined weight of 32kg hand luggage and don't check in 23kg each which offsets the size of my backside in my mind (and no, it doesn't quite weigh 92kg! )

[Miss_Tangled]

I imagine it would cost me a little more for the return journey 😄