Budget Travel - One In Three Ryanair Passengers Vote for ‘Fat Tax’

for the whole article (http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/news.php?yr=09&month=apr&story=gen-en-220409)

Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, today (22 Apr) announced that it will now consider how to charge a ‘fat tax’ after more than 30,000 passengers voted in favour of charging excess weight fees for very large passengers in an online vote over the past two weeks.

Ryanair is considering charging people who are overweight. they are willing to charge a certain price per kilo over (100kg for woman and 130kg for men). Also people who `invade’ the space of the passengers sitting beside them have to pay for 2 seats.


What do you think about this?

I'm all for it as I really hate it if you have a fat person in the seat next to you and he/she comes in your seat space. And of course you have to pay for overweight luggage so why not for overweight fat?



(Hilarious video from Ricky Gervais (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXTq2_3LfXM) on fat people on air planes)

I agree this 'fat tax' would work, as long as it actually means lower airfares for everyone else. And in my opinion they should apply for budget airlines only... full service airlines should maintain their everything inclusive model (will AA ever stop charging liqor in coach like most other non US-based airlines? unlikely... sigh)

Of course, it's not one in three. It seems that 'over 30,000' of 'over 100,000' people took part in an unscientific self-selected online poll.

I wonder what 'over 30,000' is as a proportion of LiarAir passengers. :eek:

And just how do they intend to measure a person's weight publicly without breaching the individual's human rights. Another silly publicity stunt from Michael O'Sneery.

simple add it into the T&C for the flights.
and pay per Pound of blubber. It not free lifting all that lard.
If the airlines let people bring huge heavy suitcases and place them in the hold; all well and good,
but I wouldn't feel as sanguine if their fat suitcase were propped against me all the flight .
buy 2 seats plumpers

Human rights also cover the poor sod who has a big fat lardy next to them usually taking up their space and with essence of swiss chesse to them usually as well, charge them I say

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Imstead of a fat tax, why not charge everyone by the lbs like FedEx or UPS. Passangers could but a preset amount of lbs in advance at one rate. If the pax went over when they step on a scale before boarding they would pay more.

How about a little less venom against people who are a larger size. I make a conscious effort to make sure I do not encroach on the space of my seat mates. More than can plenty of thinner folk who are arm rest hogs and or feel the need to splay their legs so wide apart they are practically doing the splits.

How about a volumetric sizing charge, if they cant pass through the Ryanair A door then they have to buy an extra seat and then they get to go through Ryanair door B and if this fails they have to buy a row. Easy and problem solved for everyone.

This is old 'news', insofar as it was ever news. Just FR spin to garner more headlines.

It's dead in the water.

http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/news.php?yr=09&month=may&story=gen-en-080509

so, effectively this guy wants to bully customers.

never will get a cent of mine then.

being 200cm tall, it's not as if it's my fault that i'm not the size of my indonesian wife at 156cm.

I've never met anyone my height that is under 90kg's and I've met a fair few up around 140kg that are pure muscle.

Try shoehorning yourself into the seats on some of these planes.

To Ryanair 'leaders', If you're talking about making people pay per volume, make sure you get a discount for the empty space in your heads where your brains should be :( :(

I wonder how they would charge someone who was intersexed? Maybe they get 115kg. Submitting a genotype that proved the condition would be required to get the extra allotment. :) :)

for the whole article (http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/news.php?yr=09&month=apr&story=gen-en-220409)



Ryanair is considering charging people who are overweight. they are willing to charge a certain price per kilo over (100kg for woman and 130kg for men). Also people who `invade’ the space of the passengers sitting beside them have to pay for 2 seats.


What do you think about this?

I'm all for it as I really hate it if you have a fat person in the seat next to you and he/she comes in your seat space. And of course you have to pay for overweight luggage so why not for overweight fat?



(Hilarious video from Ricky Gervais (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXTq2_3LfXM) on fat people on air planes)
I was going to say that I am OK with airlines charging extra for "fat" people even though I have gained a lot of weight very rapidly. But when I see the weight limits' I am well below the weight limits. but am still fat, as I am short, not dwarf, but short. Hhw will airline justify someone weighing 135 Kg, who is 6'2" and not some one who weighs 125 Kg and weighs 5'2"? The latter would appear fatter than the former and would be a bigger risk "medically". I am neither 6'2" or 5'2", I am in the middle and still support charging people beyond a certain weight. If the airlines are going to charge for checking in bags, they should give discounts to people whi are not checking in any bags on itineraries that include a free baggage allowance. When we travel as a family, we take only about 25% of our baggage allowance. (3 suitcases and 3 cary ons for 4 people travelling in business class.)

How about a little less venom against people who are a larger size. I make a conscious effort to make sure I do not encroach on the space of my seat mates. More than can plenty of thinner folk who are arm rest hogs and or feel the need to splay their legs so wide apart they are practically doing the splits.

Agreed, encroaching on other people's space is not a unique characteristic of overweight people. And not all over weight people encroach on their neighbours' space.

What do you think about this?

I'm all for it as I really hate it if you have a fat person in the seat next to you and he/she comes in your seat space.

That really would require some immediate action. :eek:

This thread (and the accompanying article could just as easily be titled "two in three" choose not to vote for fat tax. Useless article based on useless data.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,25539271-5014090,00.html

I read this today, I know it's not Budget Airlines, but considering that the length of my femur bone is longer than the pitch between some seats on aircraft, I get incensed.

Charing me extra money because I am tall guarantees that I will never ever again fly Qantas.

Not everyone is 5'6" tall, 65kg and demure.

Sure I may be in the top 2-3 percentile of height but there's not much I can do about it. I get the emergency exit rows only because I do not fit in the standard seat.

I'm paying only for a seat and to get from point a to point b. I don't care if it's leather, cloth or made from palm fronds (indonesian carrier) as long as it gets me there and I can actually sit in it without being in severe pain.

And I will not pay a cent more to sit in this seat.

Virgin Atlantic and some others already do this :(. Another way to liberate $$$ from your pocket ...