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I've always felt it should be only fair if airlines gave a combined body weight + baggage weight allowance instead of only bags.
50 8 Replyimagine if tickets were priced by the lb/kilograms
26 3 ReplyI can just see the travel tips article telling you to go donate blood and take diuretics before you get weighed for your ticket
48 0 ReplyI can see a class action lawsuit if they ever switch to that. And I imagine there wouldn't be that risk if airlines had priced their tickets based on weight from the very start back in the Roaring Twenties.
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Said by someone who hasn't thought this through at all.
People would intentionally dehydrate themselves to save money, it's dangerous.
13 7 ReplyIf you’re so poor you have to dehydrate yourself pre flight to save 2kgs of weight you shouldn’t be spending your money on plane tickets.
12 7 ReplyIt's not that they necessarily have to, some people will anyway to save a buck. And then you're just incentivising dangerous behavior.
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3 0 Replythat's amazing! I wonder why children got a further discount. I wonder if it's a coincidence they are no longer flying.
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