Should fat people pay more?

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Originally Posted by monster

Why can't they build planes with a couple of rows of "husky" seats -4 seats in place of 5, 4 rows instead of 5 -16 seats instead of 25, travellers pay$480 instead of $300, travellers who can't fit in a regular seat must pay for one of these.

Same as clothes. You need bigger clothes, it uses more cloth, costs more money. No amount of fairness is going to squeeze Big Brenda into a size 2.

Like glatt said, they do that and they call it first class. The problem is your 4-to-5 switch doesn't really do much: an airline seat is maybe 18 inches across? So in a more spacious row of 4 seats, each seat is only getting an extra 4 inches. That's not gonna help Tubby McLardass a whole bunch. Same with the extra space in the front, it's only going to be a few inches.

First class generally has 3 rows 4 seats across, where in coach they could have fit 5 rows 6 across. So you've gone from 30 seats to 12, and not surprisingly, they charge somewhere between 2 and 3 times the price depending on the demand in that flight for the first class seats. Seems perfectly fair to me.