Unless the plane has <30 seats I’m taking being weighed as I board as a huge red flag.
Airplane fuel efficiency is impacted by how much weight is onboard, and that includes fuel weight.
The more they know about the actual weight of each trip, the more fuel efficient they can make each trip.
HOWEVER, even though this is well intentioned, it’s not hard to see American carriers would love this be standardized. They would definitely leverage it to further increase their revenues. Which they will then reinvest in…checks notes…stock buybacks.
The more they know about the actual weight of each trip, the more fuel efficient they can make each trip.
This is very unconvincing from people who also did this.
This a smaller regional carrier based out of Finland, not a massive global carrier.
Why? This will make air travel a little bit safer.
If this was a progressive weight charge, I’d be all for it. For example if you are 2x the mean weight for an adult, then you pay 4x the cost, whereas if you are 2 standard deviations lighter you’d only pay 1/4th the cost I’d be all for it. But that isn’t what they are planning on doing with this. It’s just a way to charge more for worse service.
then they get 4x the space on the plane, right?
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Coming soon to Spirit/Frontier flights near you.
No fatties!
if you take up two seats you pay for two seats
