yeh, all those brains I suppose...

How did you arrive by that number? I'd love to fly that cheaply but I don't believe any airline would survive the first month before folding.

my 3 hour journey - CHEAPEST rate is about $400.00 US

Well, I was able to get $180 for my round trip ticket from Indy to Tucson and back. Thats about $15 per hour of air travel.

Is this true? I wouldn't have a hard time believing it, except last time we flew the seat on one of the flights still had ash trays in the arm rests. The seats seemed like the same size (wayyy to fucking small) as the other flights.

Even as an obese person myself, I agree with the idea that if you take up two seats, or increase the weight of an aircraft significantly, you should be charged more.

The Pay As You Go system which now extends to paying to use the toilet however, I disagree with. You can help how much you weigh - hard as it is and underlying problems there may be, it is possible. You cannot control how much you need to use the toilet - beyond fasting for 12 hours prior to the flight.

Restaurants with only one toilet (ie a unisex toilet for the whole restaurant) never used to be able to get an alcohol licence. Instead they encouraged customers to bring their own alcohol and only served soft drinks. It caught on, and many Indian restaurants work on this basis - it's a much cheaper alternative all round. Shame the aircraft won't allow that. You could keep a whole family contented with a six pack of Walkers crisps and a bottle of duty free Baileys.

Not that that matters to me of course. Not any more. I just resent having bodily needs charged for.

I want to be able to buy the third seat in a group of 3, when I'm flying with a significant other on a long flight. Obese or not, that gives you the room of a first-class seat at a fraction of the price.

You're able to do it, as long as it's not a full flight to begin with--buy three tickets with a third fictitious name. Fictitious name never checks in, so the seat is empty. Unless the flight is full, then someone on standby will get it. But I haven't been on a full flight in a long time.

Could really skinny people get a half priced ticket if they share a seat?

Why would you need to use a fictitious name? Just tell them you want the extra room. I imagine they would be fine with that.

If you bought the ticket over the phone you'd probably be fine. Now that I think about it, I know a guy who routinely buys an extra seat for his cello because he's not willing to check it, so they obviously have some sort of designation for that sort of thing. But buying the ticket online, I'd personally be afraid to risk it. Airline security doesn't leave a lot of leeway anymore, and there are a lot of TAA employees with a rent-a-cop complex who might think the same name on two seats was somehow suspicious.

Some european airlines managed to get by on that before the recession. As the whole mess is because of the bankers, I stand by the rate as it was, is what it should be.

Do anorexics only have to pay half a fare?

Only if they share.

But they'll charge fat people even if the plane has spare seats.