here goes...
1: Weigh people 'and' their luggage at the check-in desk at the airport, pay £ per kilo per mile.

2: Vertical cattle grids at fast food outlets, can't fit through? = no food.
(actually the scales at the counter would work here too, you weigh 12St you can have a big mac, you weigh 20St, salad it is.

This isn't a go at fat people personally, I just think that point 1, would make it fairer for lighter people and point 1 and 2 would give them an incentive to lose a bit.

*edit, just noticed that point 2 has been mentioned, haven't read past page 1 yet so this whole post could have been a waste of typing!

**edit2, it's been mentioned, but kids on planes, get your own.

and holiday companies that say exclusively for adults, but fail to mention that other tour operators might not have the same policy, so you get to your destination (which incidently cost you 20% more) only to find fucking kids everywhere.
(Kip, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 11:40, 4 replies)

Put the grid on the exits
Then they get drawn in by the thought of fast food, but are trapped in there untill they slim down to acceptable weight, AND, the wobblers are locked away out of site.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Sat 24 Sep 2011, 11:46, closed)

I'm liking this idea

(Kip, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 11:47, closed)

Quick, Quick
"sight"

Before the Internet police find out.
( Ghoti Fingers, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 11:53, closed)

wouldn't work
They'd just get thin people to get their food for them. You'd have to fight your way through fatties going "scuse me mister" every time you went for a burger...
(funkenstein Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!, Sun 25 Sep 2011, 13:12, closed)

The actual weight of passengers and their luggage is something like 15% of the overall weight of the plane so fat people don't cause much of a problem to the airline.

Baggage weight on the other hand usually varies with baggage size and due to limited hold size and loading capacity they need some way of restricting how much baggage each person takes. The added bonus is that they can charge eye watering figures for over-weight baggage.

The reason airlines rarely weigh your carry-on baggage is because it's restricted by size anyway and they don't have to pay anyone to carry it to the plane for you. The weight is not an issue.
( AWPS, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 12:02, closed)

so by that analogy, my flights could be around 7.5% cheaper for fuel (going on a 50/50 ratio)
if the plane was full of thinner people? which passed on to the customer (yeah right) would in theory make the flight cheaper.
(Kip, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 12:10, closed)

I haven't done the maths
How did you come up with that figure? The heavier the plane the more fuel it burns, for sure, but even if the plane and contents weighed 0kg you would still burn a lot of fuel to overcome the significant wind resistance at 500mph, power the air conditioning, hydraulics, entertainment system, and so on.

But yeah you're right, if the plane was full of skinny people instead of heifers it would use less fuel. You're also right that the savings would be redistributed into a bonus scheme for senior management before it got anywhere near your pocket.
( AWPS, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 12:19, closed)

guesstimates!

(Kip, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 12:57, closed)

"kids on planes, get your own"
Is this like pick'n'mix, but for nonces?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sat 24 Sep 2011, 22:50, closed)