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Lanzman · Apr 6, 2013

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Inaccurate thread title. Please rename: "Jenna, Ted, & Fatass Chad Will Now Be Charged More Per Flight"

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Post: Jenna & Ted Will Now Be Charged More Per Flight
Forum: The Red Room
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Posted by: $corp
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...on Samoa Airlines.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-22001256

Samoa Air boss defends charging passengers by weight

Air Samoa said the policy meant some people would end up paying less to fly
The head of Samoa Air has defended the airline's decision to start charging passengers according to their weight.

Chris Langton told Australia's ABC Radio that it was "the fairest way of travelling".

Rather than pay for a seat, passengers pay a fixed price per kilogram, which varies depending on the route length.

Samoa Air flies domestically and to American Samoa. It is thought the move could encourage other airlines to introduce similar policies.

"Airlines don't run on seats, they run on weight, and particularly the smaller the aircraft you are in the less variance you can accept in terms of the difference in weight between passengers," Mr Langton told ABC radio.

People generally are bigger, wider and taller than they were 50 years ago”

"Anyone who travels at times has felt they have been paying for half of the passenger next to them."
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Personally, I think it's a good idea, although there really should also be separate seating for really tall people as well as the disgustingly obese. With the former, they are squished into these tiny little chairs so that their arms and legs are pushed right up to the seat. With the latter, their disgusting rolls of fat hang off the armrest and you are made to touch it just by being in the same row. Why should normal people be punished because someone was born abnormally tall or with a "gland problem".
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