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 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.
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…