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Originally Posted by smt1111
Maybe the airline should take into account the person's weight plus their luggage weight. In other words, instead of having bag weight limits, they should add the bag weight plus the person's weight. A 300 lb man who has 40 lbs of luggage is 340 lbs total whereas a small woman might be 115 lbs with a 25 lb bag or 140 lbs total. The woman should not pay as much as the man who is bringing 200 lbs more onto the aircraft than she is.
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And what do you expect will be gained by that? It won't keep people from packing heavy bags, it won't improve safety (as average passenger weight + average bag weight is already figured in to the preflight calculations, and the weight of paid freight + fuel dwarfs both), and the added revenue won't be used to increase passenger comfort. So what goal is this attended to achieve, apart from harassing fat people?
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