Just Few weeks ago, we reported on Prof. Bharat P Bhatta who was suggesting that, since airlines do not run on seats but on weight, it will be good for them to start charging fat people more, and slim people less…
His suggestion must have caught the attention of Samoa Air operators as the company has started to charge passengers for a plane seat according to how much they weigh.
Under the new model passengers pay a fixed price per kilogram for the ticket price, which varies depending on the route length.
Daily Mail Reports;
Head of Samoa Air Chris Langton told Australia’s ABC Radio that it was ‘the fairest way of travelling.’
Under the pay by weight system passengers input their weight into the online booking section of the Samoa Air website.
Air Samoa’s rates range from $1 (65p) to around $4.16 per kilogram reported News.com.au.
‘People have always travelled on the basis of their seat but as many airline operators know airlines don’t run on seats they run on weight and particularly the smaller the aircraft you are in the less variance you can accept in terms of the difference in weight between passengers,’ Mr Langton told ABC radio.
Now is the time to hit the gym if you want to travel cheaply…I can see Ghanaian trotro operators going in for this too! 🙂
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lmaooo…ehhhh as3m beba dabi…gh ppl tym to drop de fufu n banku..n opt fr sum dry a$$ salad..lool
This is absolutely nonsense and discrimination, i would never fly with Samoa Air cause this is just another way of making more money, Samoans need to sue that airline for their nonsense cause they damn no that Samoans like the pima indians have whats known as “thrifty genes” Most of them naturally store lots of body fat efficiently they eat more than what thier bodies require, they get fat very easy Most of them are Endomorphs now they are trying to say loose weight or we will charge you extra before Prof Bharat made that statement did he ever did a research that someone with muscle can weight more than a fat person and that people come in all kind of height and woman are lighter than man
@Dr. Miyagi, Hahahaha. Is it their fault that the plane goes by weight? miyagi leave them. i hope it means lower fare for slim tins
@sistergirl, loooooool
is that their way of telling people to lose weight?