Should fat people pay more?

[monster]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

They are more than capable of ordering planes from Boeing with fewer and larger seats installed. But then, the tickets would cost more, and we'd all just be subsidizing the people who would have needed two seats. Buy one (1) first-class ticket if you're that big.

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.

[glatt]

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.

Don't they already do that, and call it first class, and charge 5 times the coach rate?