Why not both? Bigger seats and weight-based ticket prices!
If you’re thinking of this, consider that those who buy clothes in XS have to pay the same amount as the XXL size for that same shirt or pants. Despite the XS garment being a third as much material and stitching.
I’m not sure this is unpopular, even on Lemmy.
Someone else already said that they should stop making the seats tiny.
No.
Airlines should be regulated so the seats are larger and accommodate larger people.
And if you managed to fly before airlines were deregulated, then you know that this was once the norm and isn’t too much to ask.
People will always hate fats more than billionaires.
False comparison. No one mentioned billionaires. Two completely separate topics.
I can draw the tangent. Airline industry executives cut costs to make more profits including decreasing seat sizes and increasing number of seats. If they cared less about profit and went back to sizes decades ago, almost no one would be uncomfortable. They go on to tell us it’s about fuel economy and the environment while they fly their private jets.
Now that is a decent argument.
Airplane manufacturers and airlines should stop maximizing throughput via smaller seats.
Actually, I prefer the tight packing. I wanna get from A to B, and have you seen how expensive tickets are?
They should really be using wide body flying/blended wings so the cabin is more spacious for the same max payload, but that’s a separate matter.
That being said, I think airlines should mix in a few spacier seats, for big/tall people, for a small, markup, and exclude all the business class extras.
Airlines already do this, premium economy. Usually the seats that happen to have more leg room due to the design of the cabin.
Ah I missed this last time.
I mean they do have some small number of seats with extra legroom, that you can pay upcharge for. Exit row seats, bulk head seats, premium economy, to a smaller degree simply choosing an airline with a more spacious configuration in their planes.
There’s already a solution for that. It’s called premium economy/business class.
And if you’re gonna say “but that’s so much more expensive”, well guess what’s going to happen if you reduce how many pax can fit on an aircraft.
Folks should not down vote him, the cost of flights considering inflation have dropped a ton over the years. Its comodetized and made highly efficient with cramped quarters and more efficient technology. If you want more room to fly old school it simply costs more…
https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/history-of-flight-costs
"In 1970, a domestic round-trip flight from New York to Los Angeles cost about $150, which is equivalent to over $1,000 today when adjusted for inflation, while today the same flight averages around $300. "
Thank you, oh thank you, for selling the option not to treat me like cattle.
Dude. Larger spaced economy seats would LITERALLY be doing the same exact thing. There is no world where you get more space for the same amount of money.
Airlines already don’t make a lot of profit on economy seats, if any. It’s not like they’re price gauging you on the basic economy price. The majority of their profit comes higher classes, baggage and other service upgrades, and at least in America, credit card reward programs. Economy class by itself is already barely, if at all, profitable. Making it significantly more spacious will inevitably and without doubt lead to higher prices. And if you’re willing to pay those higher prices, we’ll that’s literally already an option today. The only thing you’re advocating for here is forcing literally everyone to pay that upcharge, even those that don’t want or need it.
It’s also bad for the environment. As uncomfortable as it is, stuffing as many people as you possibly can into one aircraft reduces the total number of aircrafts/size of aircraft required for a certain passenger number. Not that that’s why airlines do it of course, but it’s a genuinely desirable and positive side effect of the cramped economy seating.
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Way to demonstrate the intellectual maturity of a 5 year old. And since I don’t engage with random 5 year olds on principle, consider yourself blocked.
You did tho
That dude is mad lol
I feel like this is a fairly common opinion. Also, I believe they do have to after some point; not sure how the airline decides though?
Go by a golden corral and you will definitely find people who don’t physically fit in 1 plane seat
It’s got to do with calculating the amount of fuel for the plane. More weight requires more fuel.
Edit: I’m sure it’s also partly exaggerated capitalism, the companies want every dollar they can milk from the passengers…
No it isn’t. Not in large airplanes. The typical takeoff weight of an A320 is in the neighborhood of 50-70 tons. The pilots do not give a shit if a few passengers weigh a couple 100kg more than the average, and that’s a narrow body. A couple PAX being grosly obese on a widebody, with typical takeoff weights in excess of 100 tons, is even more negligible.
Fuel calculations and weight&balance is calculated based on assumed average weights for men, women and children, generally something in the neighborhood of 85kg for men, 75 for women and 30-40 for children (includes assumed average hand luggage weight as well)
You’re using actual reasoning, while dismissing my edit of corporate greed reasoning. You better believe, especially in capitalist USA, they’d just as soon charge you $10 a fart if they could…
I mean they literally DON’T charge you for extra cabin weight, or body weight, even if they could. Most airlines don’t even put weight limits on cabin luggage, only size limits. And even those that have weight limits, in my experience, very rarely enforce them. Generally, only size is enforced for hand luggage.
And they only charge overweight people double if they’re so large they physically block more than one seat, which imo is fine. If you need more than seat, it’s perfectly fine to expect you to pay for that extra seat. It has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with either excessive greed OR mass/fuel issues.
I won’t lie, I’ve never flown before in my life.
I only lived within walking distance of two airports, one of them an international airport, and the other lightweight airport flew their planes right over our house.
So I’ll pretend I don’t know anything if that makes you happy. Those of us on the ground learn the real rules when planes start crashing in your back yard…
Edit: This comment coming from someone that actually applied to refuel airplanes at the local international airport. No they didn’t hire me, they probably figured me as a corporate risk, as I had too much experience seeing planes crash, not too far behind our house.
Commercial jet liners are the safest mode of transport by a massive margin, and several orders of magnitude more safe than anything that is on a public road. If you start driving and flying at the same time, by the time you’ve encountered even a serious, much less fatal, incident in the aircraft, statistically you will have been killed dozens of times over in the car.
Don’t see you raging against buses or taxis here.
Wait, you got buses and taxis? Well fuck, after our horse died, I adopted bicycle riding and BMX flatland…
I mean, mass is a massive factor for flight.
If you ever fly on a small plane, they ask your weight, and cap your luggage weight because they absolutely have to.
I’m tall and don’t fit in any seat other than an exit row. If there aren’t any exit rows should I be forced to pay for the seat in front of me?
Yeah dude, corporations should be able to do whatever the fuck they want!
/s
I’m sorry you have to deal with that but it’s not really a good argument. For one, the airline can still actually sell the seat in front of you.
If a person is so large they physically block 2 seats, then that’s an extra seat that can’t be occupied at all, so it’s not really a fair comparison.
And ultimately, not every mode of transport can reasonably be accommodating to every single possible body type. I know that it sucks for people are stuck being an untypical body type and have to deal with nothing much fitting them, but what do you suggest the alternative should be ? Spacing seats out more just so the few very tall people can sit everywhere is going to increase ticket prices for everyone, even those who neither need nor want that extra space. It will also increase the number of flights required to move the same number of passengers, and therefore increase the fuel use per passenger and mile flown.
I mean, look at it from the passenger in front’s perspective. They’re paying as much for their seat as everyone else presumably, and yet if you’re too tall to fit in your seat and your knees are pressed up against theirs for the whole flight, they’re having a considerably worse experience than everyone else. Should they have to pay as much as everyone else does, with that in mind?
Really covering new ground with this one…
A lot of airlines do https://www.obesityaction.org/resources/to-buy-or-not-to-buy-an-extra-seat-2/
Wow — first seeing US Airways, and then later in the article Continental mentioned, lets me know that the page linked is wildly out of date.
I wonder if Pan-Am will make an appearance.
Oh look, another post arguing that obesity isn’t a disease but a choice.
It’s a lifestyle
Oh look someone assuming the worst in the comment section. I don’t care how you got fat, if your rolls are spilling into my seat you should be paying for 2.
