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Old Jun 3, 2008, 4:03 pm
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fairviewroad
 
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Originally Posted by USCGamecock
I knew this was coming. Let's see who will be the first to implement it.
Charging passengers by their weight makes absolutely no sense, since airlines do not currently charge us based on the true cost of getting from Point A to Point B. If they did, airfare would be based almost solely on distance.

But we all know it isn't, since it's often cheaper to fly cross-country than between two adjacent states. Since that's the case, it doesn't logically follow that the weight of the passenger should have any correlation to the price.
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