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double agreed. however, it does bug me charging on weight for baggage when fat people pay the same price as extremely lightweight people. Someone who's 105 pounds with a 52 pound bag gets charged extra, while someone who's 290 pounds but has a 49 pound bag pays no extra charge. Dunno quite how they'd ever get around it, but it does bug me. And I say this as someone who's got a few extra pounds of his own :)


The only reason I presume Ryanair haven't done it yet is because I presume there would be some law against it.


Weigh each passenger and charge proportionally.


And then employ very small thin people for any work that requires foreign travel?

Seriously the implications of that are boggling although I suppose modern technology makes it possible to do so.


"Proper" airlines generally aren't very picky about the weight of your luggage, so it probably wouldn't apply to them, only to airlines like Ryanair that are.

I don't think it's a good solution, but I can relate to to bitterness of being charged for a 2 kg overweight and then getting stuck in half a seat because the person next to you is the size of a cow.


http://www.airfarewatchdog.com/blog/3801241/should-obese-pas...

Some airlines do have policies in place for such situations.




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