Uzbekistan Airways To Start Weighing Passengers Before Flights

[Arthur Little]

www.independent.co.uk/travel/uzbekistan-airways-announces-it-will-start-weighing-passengers-before-flights-10454952.html

Good :idea: ... perhaps other airlines will follow suit.

[stevewool]

So does that mean its going to be cheaper for the thin ones

[grahamw48]

Common sense I'd have thought. Everything on a plane is weight-critical. Good business sense too. More fatties mean less cargo...and less space for slim folk like me. :biggrin:

[Arthur Little]

Hmm ... :anerikke: ... seems Air France already charges obese passengers for two seats:

www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/7038141/Air-France-to-charge-obese-passengers-for-two-seats.html

[London_Manila]

So does that mean its going to be cheaper for the thin ones

Just a way of charging people more who are over weight

They should concentrate on hand luggage and enforce those rules
Hand luggage these days seems to be a small suitcase :NoNo:

[grahamw48]

The less likely I am to have a fat sweaty individual sitting next to me (and overflowing into my space) the better. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Want to fly ?

Lose weight...or become an Ostrich...and walk. :smile:

[Michael Parnham]

Hopefully it will encourage people to get down to a normal weight and be able to live a healthy life and live longer, also lessen the burden on the NHS:xxgrinning--00xx3:

[grahamw48]

Yep...in the news today...3 million with diabetes in the UK now. Mostly through being OBESE. :NoNo:

The NHS shouldn't have to to be wasting money on idle gluttons, who would otherwise have been healthy. :mad:

If I can give up smoking (including on the plane), then they can stop stuffing their faces.

[Doc Alan]

Yep...in the news today...3 million with diabetes in the UK now. Mostly through being OBESE. :NoNo:

The NHS shouldn't have to to be wasting money on idle gluttons, who would otherwise have been healthy. :mad:

If I can give up smoking (including on the plane), then they can stop stuffing their faces.

You have a point, Graham, but not everyone is as intelligent and self-disciplined as you :smile:.

See http://filipinaroses.com/showthread.php/51709-Fat-Chance-!?p=549524#post549524