LumbergTech
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Damn, the Internet is always great for a good hate on fatties circle jerk.
FTFY
Damn, the Internet is always great for a good hate on fatties circle jerk.
if charging heavier people more means i pay less, then i'm all for it.
if you're skinny, whats your opinion?
We should probably consider volume as well. We could no doubt save on cabin size - and thus metal needed for it, and therefore weight - by making cabins accommodate people 5'6 and just telling taller people to duck. Or they'd have to buy a ticket on a larger, and thus more expensive plane.
Great post.I didn't read the thread, but I was an engineer at a major US airline until a few months ago. Weight savings runs around $45 per pound per year, depending on fleet, but they are all around that. Our average was about 1100 flights per year, for all fleets combined.
Cost of extra weight is massively overblown. I used to have vendors try to pull out these $1000/pound-yr numbers and we would just laugh at them and their $100,000, 10 pound weight saving modifications.
BTW: Passenger weight on a 737-800 is only about 17% of the max takeoff weight. So it isn't like the plane would be free to operate if everyone was 90 pounds instead of 250.
Ahh, I see. So basically you're a bigot in addition to not being very bright. You could have put some thought into a reply that many here may have bought but instead you rolled right over and showed your true colors.
What are your feelings towards gays and blacks? Are you PC with those groups?
Great post.
So now we can determine who is dumber. The "economics scholar" from Norway that shared his progtard ideas that are not practical and not needed or, his dumbass minion followers in this thread that seized upon the article to bash the last group in the states that have no lobby - the overweight.
I vote for the followers. The dumbass from Norway just shared his ignorant thoughts. Here, lemmings jumped on his bandwagon when they saw an opportunity to make them feel better about themselves at the expense of someone else. Let me guess, you guys vote too?
They should weigh everything just to keep it completely fair. It shouldn't be difficult to weigh luggage and add that to the price since that's exactly what shipping companies already do. Weighing people should be easy as well. Stand on a scale, scan your ticket, the system adds your weight to your ticket and that weight would show up on the final bill.
Loading/unloading procedures would be shorter.
weigh them all at the security check point?
Average ticket price would go down.
I know right? How could a shipping company like UPS start changing by weight? They would need to start weighing boxes or something. This would be impossibly difficult because a standard bathroom scale costs like $20,000 and they're as big as a house. Charging by weight will only be possible when someone invents a scale that is cheap enough for the average person to buy and small enough to fit in something like a bathroom.
So my other question would be, what if the passengers are significantly smaller? Last month I took my family on a trip to Argentina and I had to pay full price for my kids to have their own seats.
My 2 year old daughter is 25lbs and my 4 year old son is 45 lbs. My Daughter, even with her 12 pound car seat is significantly less in weight and in volume than a average passenger and so is my Son (Who didn't use a car seat). Would we get a significant discount on their tickets?
My hunch is no...
huh? thought u could sit your 2yr old on your lap??
The only thing worse than a bigot like yourself is a bigot like yourself who is too ignorant to know when to shut up.Are you overweight? Do you have a fat wife or something? You defend being overweight. You shouldn't. This has nothing to do with us health concious and concerned people making ourselves feel better. It's about people being uncontrolled, slothy face stuffing pigs and then placing their 'burdern' on society. You seem to think it's about us just wanting to feel better at others expense with its the opposite. It's about fatties not caring about their health at the expense of others (us). Squeezing into seats they don't fit in on planes, taking up two seats on the subway, etc. Wanting doors widened. Crazy shit.
LOL I was just thinking the same thing. Can I get a discount if I am under their weight limit??
Bullshit. Before I worry about the cost difference that fattie makes, I would worry more about the customer satisfaction of the 2 people sufferring with fattie in the middle.
Are you overweight? Do you have a fat wife or something? You defend being overweight. You shouldn't. This has nothing to do with us health concious and concerned people making ourselves feel better. It's about people being uncontrolled, slothy face stuffing pigs and then placing their 'burdern' on society. You seem to think it's about us just wanting to feel better at others expense with its the opposite. It's about fatties not caring about their health at the expense of others (us). Squeezing into seats they don't fit in on planes, taking up two seats on the subway, etc. Wanting doors widened. Crazy shit.
Here is the thing every single human being has got something they work on or struggle with.
I am 5'11" 175lbs and do at least 6 hours Cardio a week often over 10 when the weather is nice. My entire family is slim and healthy by choice.
I like to smoke weed - some may judge that as some huge character flaw.
I like to bait people on forums and slowly lead them into painting themselves into a stupid positions - finding that fun that could be classified as a flaw.
However some folks have issues that are not apparent from appearances, lets take you for instance - your an insensitive self righteous prick who by all accounts thinks he is perfect without flaw, enough to endlessly bash a group of people with little consideration.
You may be psychically fit but based on your posts here your an emotional wreck with some serious character flaws.
Fat people can eat less, you may require years of expensive therapy to overcome your flaws.
Think bigger.I think airlines should do away with all fares and they should charge according to what you weigh...that way everybody would be treated equally!!!
Damn, Anandtech is always great for a good hate on fatties circle jerk.
I didn't read the thread, but I was an engineer at a major US airline until a few months ago. Weight savings runs around $45 per pound per year, depending on fleet, but they are all around that. Our average was about 1100 flights per year, for all fleets combined.
Cost of extra weight is massively overblown. I used to have vendors try to pull out these $1000/pound-yr numbers and we would just laugh at them and their $100,000, 10 pound weight saving modifications.
BTW: Passenger weight on a 737-800 is only about 17% of the max takeoff weight. So it isn't like the plane would be free to operate if everyone was 90 pounds instead of 250.
Honestly, this morning when I was getting off the subway, which was full, before anybody could even get off the train, a GIANT lady (probably 5'7 450) barges onto the train and literally blocked the door. It's like she didn't want to wait at all. Just knows she's huge and threw herself on the train. There was about 9 people wanting to get off the train at that particular door, and people had to squeeze by her. There was not enough time for everyone to get off as even the other exit doors had groups of people walking off. I fortunately bolted down to another door and slipped out before the doors closed, but I watched as the doors closed on some people. They were pissed! And I was pretty disgusted 'with fat people' today. The person totally fit the 'fuck everyone im fat i dont care' personality I was ranting about. The same person that squeezes into a seat too small and bulges over into your seat, only to look at you like "deal with it".
I have plenty of consideration for all walks of life. I'm hardly the smartest person around, much less this message board. I don't think I know better than all. I base all my opinions on life experience. Experience that is unique to me. I'm completely open to other perspectives.
I 100% understand that everyone has their struggles.
I understand that some people have a medical condition they can't beat and it makes them obese. I stated that already. This could be depression, etc.
I stand by my opinion that someone that continually overeats, doesn't work out, is lazy, and gets fat (not overweight, but taking up two seats fat) is 100% displaying bad behavior. its 2013, people should know better. This is a specific group of people. They don't seem to care about themselves, so I assume they don't care about others.
To me it's on par with alcoholism. I don't want to accomodate a drunk because they can't help themselves. They need help. They need to reduce their alcohol consumption, but catering to their faults in the business world (would you expect a special line for drunks because otherwise they stumble into people?) is only reinforcing that bad behavior.
I don't know. I'm rarely a bigot about things, but if there's something I may be one about, and be ok with it, it's about obnoxiously large people THAT are that way because of their life choices. And MOST fat people are that way because they choose to be. I find people that have a medical affliction (and I don't accept addiction to food as one) are an exception to the rule. And before someone cries "but food addiction is a real medical affliction" let me just say, yes, as is drug addiction. Heroine addicts don't get a free pass because they have a medical condition when that medical condition is their addiction!
You know what I love more than anything? Before/After pics where a fattie pulled their shit together and beat their bad habits.