• dutchkimble@lemy.lol
    508·
    9 months ago

    I’ve always felt it should be only fair if airlines gave a combined body weight + baggage weight allowance instead of only bags.

      • CobblerScholar@lemmy.world
        48·
        9 months ago

        I can just see the travel tips article telling you to go donate blood and take diuretics before you get weighed for your ticket

        • niktemadur@lemmy.world
          91·
          9 months ago

          I 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.

      • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz
        137·
        9 months ago

        Said by someone who hasn’t thought this through at all.

        People would intentionally dehydrate themselves to save money, it’s dangerous.

        • GregorGizeh
          127·
          9 months ago

          If 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.

          • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
            91·
            9 months ago

            It’s not that they necessarily have to, some people will anyway to save a buck. And then you’re just incentivising dangerous behavior.

        • Willy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          that’s amazing! I wonder why children got a further discount. I wonder if it’s a coincidence they are no longer flying.