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Re:Weigh more, pay more: Argument for charging obese people ... by zeeed on Monday March 19, 2012 @11:35AM (#3724377)
> less than 10% of it spent on shifting your meat.

where does that figure come from?

> Extra luggage is more work for the airline

Extra pieces: maybe. Excess weight: nope.

I've been charged up to E100 for 3kg of luggage overweight (23kg allowed, my suitcase had 26kg). That didn't make sense to me when I looked at the guy behind me in the queue, who easily had 40kg more than me on his hips.

It's the pricing structure that is completely out of proportion and that needs to be brought back to something reasonable.

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Re:Weigh more, pay more: Argument for charging obese people ... by vacri on Monday March 19, 2012 @06:00PM (#3726508)
where does that figure come from?

Really? It's the first two lines of my comment, specifically spaced out to make it clearer.

As for the other issue, excess weight is easy to convince the public about, especially now that they're doing more of the 'please standardise your luggage' where individual pieces also get weight limits (as you found).

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