Should your weight affect your airfare?

FAA average weight for calculations is currently 190lbs. per passenger. Shockingly, it was 170lbs. 20 years ago.

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The weight limit for bags isn’t cuz the airplane can’t handle it. The weight limit is because the baggage handlers and baggage equipment has a limit when loading/unloading. If you dig deep enough I’m sure there’s some union or OSHA rule about how much weight employees are allowed to lift

Hell yes it should. If you're a fat fuck (and you know if you are) you buy 2 seats.

I'm a fat guy and would absolutely want this. But if I pay more, I went a bigger seat. And no screaming kids near me. That's an extra cost I'm willing to pay. All the parents and kids in a separate section.

Makes too much sense. You should enter your height and weight when booking and people who overflow into the next seat should have to buy two seats. It’s punishing the people next to them otherwise.

But an airline seat at check-in. Verify passengers fit just like they do with the carryon.

The guys on the ramp have to pick them up and put them on the plane and then stack them inside the plane

I think it’s more to limit how much weight the baggage handlers have to throw around

Fantastic idea! Weight is weight!

@adamcarolla You should have a weight limit including body weight plus luggage weight and if your over you pay a penalty