Thread: United Airlines To Charge Heavier Passengers Twice To Fly

Originally Posted by blackgang

Originally Posted by taxexile

why are you telling us this ? what does a story about your fat pal have to do with this thread?

You are a thick kunt aren't you, and you cut the quote to serve your purpose, the man was a powerhouse because of his genes, not because he was fat, he was not fat and you should have seen his dad, he was even larger and a pro strong man..he weighed almost 400 and worked everyday with my father as labor on a WPA gang after the depression of 1929.

Doesn't sound like he'd be affording any flights anywhere exotic anyway, so the example is just a strawman.

Either way, if he's heavy AND FIT, then it's not an issue -- as the overhang from the fatties onto the seat next to them is the problem, the weight is less of an issue.

If he is not fat around the midsection, which is what fits in the seat, he should have no problem.


next!

Originally Posted by blackgang

I wouldn't want to be on no plane with no fucking rugby players, if that plane crashed the fuckers woud eat you if you was dead, and might kill you and eat you anyway, fucking animals.
Don't you remember what happened when that plane crashed in the andes or somewhere it was snowy and cold.

I think it was a soccer team, BG. But good point.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Originally Posted by blackgang

I wouldn't want to be on no plane with no fucking rugby players, if that plane crashed the fuckers woud eat you if you was dead, and might kill you and eat you anyway, fucking animals.
Don't you remember what happened when that plane crashed in the andes or somewhere it was snowy and cold.

I think it was a soccer team, BG. But good point.

Nope, they were Rugby players:

In 1972, the survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, consisting of the rugby team from Stella Maris College in Montevideo and some of their family members, were forced to resort to cannibalism during their entrapment at the crash site. They had been stranded since October 13 and rescue operations at the crash site did not commence until December 22. The story of the survivors was chronicled in Piers Paul Read's 1974 book, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, in a 1993 film adaptation of the book, called simply Alive, and in a 2008 documentary: Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains.

^ Ah! Never took much interest and always thought they were ball kickers. Thanks for confirming.

Originally Posted by Rigger

Indians, Arabs, should have to pay more because they smell like turds as well they like blowing up planes

Mother carrying infants should pay more for kids that scream, puke, fart and shit and kick me, all the time mom smiling at me as if I wanted to be the father of her little tax write-off.

Charge for the toilet, the drop-down air mask, the life preserver, carry-on luggage...

UA domestic in the US already charges per checked bag!

Originally Posted by Gerbil

When they're on tour that can happen without the need for a crash.

It's called, err, bonding.

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

So is being fat now considered being built like a rugby player?

No. Being built like a rugby player is considered being built like a rugby player.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Ah! Never took much interest

Keep your trap shut then.

I for one am sick of subsidising these people who are so mentally ill that they gourged their body until it wieghts 3 or 4 times as much as an average normal healthy person.

Originally Posted by Guy Mandude

Mother carrying infants should pay more for kids that scream, puke, fart and shit and kick me, all the time mom smiling at me as if I wanted to be the father of her little tax write-off.

Yep very good point matey and we have discussed this very issue at length before.

The consensus was that people traveling with kids are to be banged up the back and curtained off so us paying punters do not have to be seated next to screaming kids.

Next move is to confine fat bastards to first class so they must pay a shit load more to transport there foking fat smelly arse around the globe, actually I'll go a tad further and say, Fok Em, they should not be allowed on the foking plane as there a foking discrace to the human race and should be ashamed of them selves.

There the bastards that used to pinch my sandwiches at school and they deserve to wallow in there fatness.

Coonts they are.

Originally Posted by terry57

The consensus was that people traveling with kids are to be banged up the back and curtained off so us paying punters do not have to be seated next to screaming kids.

Next move is to confine fat bastards to first class so they must pay a shit load more to transport there foking fat smelly arse around the globe, actually I'll go a tad further and say, Fok Em, they should not be allowed on the foking plane as there a foking discrace to the human race and should be ashamed of them selves.

There the bastards that used to pinch my sandwiches at school and they deserve to wallow in there fatness.

Coonts they are.

Don't hold back now...say what you really feel.

Very funny stuff! And I do like the first class suggestion. If they can't fit in a normal seat, they should pay for the larger seats in biz or 1st...or use the fat bastids as ballast in the cargo hold to balance out the plane.

So how is this going to work. Are people going to be charged more if they are over a certain KG, or are all fatties going to be charged regardless of hight?

Originally Posted by Jesus Jones

So how is this going to work. Are people going to be charged more if they are over a certain KG, or are all fatties going to be charged regardless of hight?

I say charge 'em based on tonnage only. But if they're so freakin tall they block the view of people sitting behind trying to watch the in-flight movie, charge 'em for that, too.

Originally Posted by Jesus Jones

So how is this going to work. Are people going to be charged more if they are over a certain KG, or are all fatties going to be charged regardless of hight?

No - if you can fit in the seat... ie fasten the seatbelt with no more than one extender and can put the armrest down then no matter how heavy you are - you have no issue and will pay no more then anyone else.

Originally Posted by terry57

The consensus was that people traveling with kids are to be banged up the back and curtained off so us paying punters do not have to be seated next to screaming kids.

An excellent suggestion. They can sit with the 'rugby players'.

What about somebody who' overweight because of muscle.

Like Arnold Wartsenigger, or Lou Perigno?

The obesity idea is spreading...


Ryanair considering passenger 'fat tax' News - Yahoo!Xtra News

Irish budget airline Ryanair says it is looking at how it could introduce a "fat tax" after almost a third of travellers voted to penalise obese fellow passengers.
Ryanair, which already charges separately for services like food onboard, asked customers to vote for their favourite "cost reduction" idea on its website over the last two weeks.
The move came after Ryanair's chief executive Michael O'Leary caused a storm earlier this year by suggesting passengers could be charged to use toilets onboard aeroplanes.
Of more than 100,000 people who voted, 29 per cent favoured excess fees for very overweight passengers, making it the most popular option.
Ryanair now says it will now ask travellers how any such charge could be levied. The four options include charging male passengers who weigh more 130 kilograms or females over 100 kilograms for every extra kilogram they carry.
Another alternative is charging for a second seat if a passenger's waist touches both armrests simultaneously.
"With passengers voting overwhelmingly for a 'fat tax', we are now asking them to suggest which format the charge could take," said Ryanair spokesman Stephen McNamara.
"These charges, if introduced, might also act as an incentive to some of our very large passengers to lose a little weight."
After the "fat tax", the second most popular "cost reduction" idea in Ryanair's poll was charging passengers one euro ($A1.82) to use toilet paper with O'Leary's face on it, a move backed by 25 per cent.






There's still the same problem of how to determine who's overweight. I know some Tongans who easily weigh at least 120kg could fill a tiny airline seat and not obese. I propose a tummy tax, lift yer shirt and if there's an overhang of more than 10 cm, charge 'em.

Originally Posted by Milkman

Like Arnold Wartsenigger, or Lou Perigno?

Shouldn,t have taken Steroids then ,

You'd have to be quite fat to fit the airline's requirements for a double ticket. I almost never see people that fat on flights, but I don't fly very much.

That being said this will never fly.They won't have the balls to enforce it, and if they do, they are going to lose business.

How stupid are they to make a press release that says they are going to discriminate against a certain selection of their clientele? What a great way for a financially insolvent airline to go from hated to despised.

Maybe they should just ban fat fucks altogether.

Originally Posted by Skettios

How stupid are they to make a press release that says they are going to discriminate against a certain selection of their clientele?

judging by the vast majority of replies on this thread . . . not stupid at all.

Maybe the thought f not having some overly-obese person spill over into your seat appeals to some . . .

^first of many lawsuits - I dare say it won't be long before they reverse themselves. I'm sure some lawyer is salivating on how much dosh he can pull from the airline.