Airlines Consider Putting Passengers on the Scales
Could air travel be going the way of a Weight Watchers weigh-in? Stick skinnies paying less than those of us with, uh, more prominent posteriors? Airlines are said to be mulling the idea, according to this Bloomberg story.
While sending passengers to the scales at check-in is a solution fraught with so many potential problems that we won’t even go into them here (the most important of which, of course, would be real celebrity weights getting leaked to the tabloids), it seems airlines are looking at ever-more creative ways to cut costs by any means possible. Japan Airlines, for example, has started using lighter dishes in its first and business class cabins. Southwest Airlines is gobbling less fuel by flying slower, and Singapore Airlines is talking about cutting excess water (like the ice used to cool drinks) to drop weight.
What do you think? Would you be willing to hop on a scale at the airport and pay per pound? How would human weigh-ins change air travel?
Tags: Airline Fees