Originally Posted by
floridastorm
What is the point of charging passengers for overweight luggage and not charging passengers for being overweight. Why should a 90 lb, 5' 2" woman pay the same fare as a 300 lb, 6' 5" man? I'm quite sure that the 210 lb difference is many times that of the overweight luggage. It's all the same to the stress on the air frame and engines.
There is some threshold where you might be too fat to fly. (or have to buy multiple seats).... Its one of the criteria uses to IDB to people
without compensation.
Anyway, as a business traveler, I tend to care very strongly about getting to where I'm going reasonably on time. My normal trip, on my second outbound AC flight, Toronto to wherever in the US, usually), there usually isn't a later flight Sunday night.
Return, Thursday, I don't much care if I make the tight 8 PM connection (home at 11), or the 10PM flight. Hell, I'll even take the
Marriott hotel on campus and fly out at 7:30.... For as low as $200
cash, guaranteed J, and the hotel. Maybe I'll bucket list "went to the Landing Strip".
I'd like to be given the first offer, as a SE.