Overweight passengers and overweight fee on flights?

Good point Oron

I understand the airlines interest but I think this is a dangerous path. overweight can be the cause of a health issue and I don't know if it's fair to charge more for such a thing. Can airlines charge more for taking paraplegic passengers? One could say that they loose money when they have to supply special care for such a person.
There are certain expense a company that supplies a service has to accept as part of the package.

May you find luck in all you do. 

I think it's pretty disgusting. As Oron said, it's just a way to make more money, I think it's discriminative and insensitive.

If this would have been any other group (black? old? women?), then there would be so much objection right now that the airline would go bankrupt. Some how, with the craze for young-beautiful-thin-fit, it's almost OK to discriminate fat people (after all being thin is being healthy, right?!)

I can sort of see the logic behind it (more weight more money) but then if I try hard enough I can also see the logic of making women pay more money (the use the bathroom more...) or tall people or whatever.  

Yes, I think it should be done, People have to pay for excess baggage. My daughter weighs approx 8 stone and had to pay £60 for excess weight in her case. When she boarded the couple sat on the opposite side weighed approx 20 stone each, ie 40 stone plus suitcases.

 So I think this is a fair way to proportion additional costs.

It will also give then some insentive to loose the excess pounds.

Hi,

    I think that this could work.  Obese people should be charged more.  This will be an incentive for heavy people to lose weight and be trim.

This whole process rewards the unhealthy and toxic symptoms or anorexia and bulemia and penalizes people with pituitary problems and poor people (fatty foods on the whole are cheaper and more often found in bulk than healthy food).

The plane executives need to suck it up like the rest of the country. All seats should be a little bigger than they are anyway. How about football players, tall people, pregnant mother.  So, when you're pregant, you have to pay more for flights! Give me a break. Body fascism or weightism has reached a new low. There's a documentary in production called Full-Scale: A Heavy Film" (www.imdb.com/title/tt1411239/) that seems to promise insight into this growing confusion and abuse surrounding food consumption, health, and the part the media plays.

i dont agree as said above over weight can be due to an illness and medication. 

it seems degrading to the people concerned. so airlines wise up and think of another way to make money....