Airlines should charge passengers by weight
In response to American Airlines’ decision to charge for all luggage, an expert commentator on NPR was asked if airlines will start charging people according to their body weight. The answer? No, it would be an invasion of privacy.
Well, I have news for that expert. It is an invasion of my privacy to disallow any of my luggage as a “free” item when the guy next to me on my last flight weighed about 100 pounds more than I do and took up part of my seating space. So now I have to pay for my luggage and suffer through a flight by paying for 25 percent of his body mass in my seating area? That is a real invasion of privacy. Establish a weight limit per customer and apportion it to the passenger and his/her luggage and quit charging me for someone else’s inability to curb their caloric intake.
Gee, was that politically correct enough?
Warren Romaine
Greensboro
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Where to begin?........
Posted on June 5, 2008 7:12 AM
oh great..a man named after a lettuce wants fat people penalized..we're stooping low for literary devices
Posted on June 5, 2008 9:01 AM
I do agree that anyone who is wider than one airline seat should have to pay for two. The question is, who wants the job of measuring people's behinds as they check in at the airport?
BTW, could I get a discount for being tiny and packing light?
Posted on June 5, 2008 10:22 AM