American to begin charging for first checked bag

John Kulp wrote:

Why would a 125 pound woman have to pay more than a 125 pound man, since
the fuel usage would be the same?

Because they talk more?

No, its because their centre of gravity is in a different location than
males. Some women, like Pamela Anderson has weight below the shoulders,
while most women have their weight at the waist level. Football players
have their weight at the shoulders, while geeks are either overly obese
all over, or as thin and pale as a sheet of paper with all of the weight
centrered around their thick glasses.

Then, there are the sumo wrestlers.

On Sun, 25 May 2008 03:14:50 GMT, "Sharkbait"
wrote:


Irrelevant. If he or she is under 180, 194 or 120 or whatever reasonable
guideline is established for men or women so be it. Even midgets (I'm
sorry - little people) pay full fare unless they can sit in the lap of their
mother or fellow traveler for the full flight with the seat belt strapped
around both just like for infants.

rg


Hardly irrelevant. Why should someone be penalized for being tall?

Someone's weight is obviously going to be different depending on that
person's height and it's ridiculous to say someone who is 6'3" should
be the same weight as another who is 4'10".

How would you do this? Judge by BMI? Check people's fat index? How
long would that take? Should Ray Lewis with a body fat of 9% pay more
because he has more muscle?

On Sun, 25 May 2008 17:51:13 -0400, Brian
wrote:

On Sun, 25 May 2008 03:14:50 GMT, "Sharkbait"
wrote:


Irrelevant. If he or she is under 180, 194 or 120 or whatever reasonable
guideline is established for men or women so be it. Even midgets (I'm
sorry - little people) pay full fare unless they can sit in the lap of their
mother or fellow traveler for the full flight with the seat belt strapped
around both just like for infants.

rg


Hardly irrelevant. Why should someone be penalized for being tall?

Someone's weight is obviously going to be different depending on that
person's height and it's ridiculous to say someone who is 6'3" should
be the same weight as another who is 4'10".

How would you do this? Judge by BMI? Check people's fat index? How
long would that take? Should Ray Lewis with a body fat of 9% pay more
because he has more muscle?


No because he has so much money. This whole thread is completely
irrelevant and silly for two reasons: 1. they already charge for an
extra seat if someone's fat ass takes up more than one and 2. nobody
is going to do this anyway. They have plenty of other choices to make
up for it. Like raising fares.

John Doe wrote:
Mr Travel wrote:


Why would a 125 pound woman have to pay more than a 125 pound man, since
the fuel usage would be the same?


Airlines currently use a different average weight for men and women.

How do they do this?
If I go to AA.COM, for example, book a flight, and enter a passenger
name, there no place to mark the passenger's gender.

mrtravel blabbled:

John Doe wrote:
Mr Travel wrote:

Why would a 125 pound woman have to pay more than a 125 pound man, since
the fuel usage would be the same?

Airlines currently use a different average weight for men and women.

How do they do this?
If I go to AA.COM, for example, book a flight, and enter a passenger
name, there no place to mark the passenger's gender.


If it's your wife's name, you just enter "Whore"...


--
Best
Greg

mrtravel wrote:

Airlines currently use a different average weight for men and women.

How do they do this?
If I go to AA.COM, for example, book a flight, and enter a passenger
name, there no place to mark the passenger's gender.

OK, this may have been eliminated. But it used to be important to enter
the "Mr" or "Ms" in a reservation, and it would show up on your ticket.

Larry in AZ wrote:

OK, this may have been eliminated. But it used to be important to enter
the "Mr" or "Ms" in a reservation, and it would show up on your ticket.

Haven't seen that in many years...


http://www1.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAdvisoryCircular.nsf/0/d1ee786f363e795286256eee0061e9a6/$FILE/AC120-27D.pdf

Page 29, specifically lists different weights to be used for male,
female, children for both summer and winter seasons.

But I have also seen references elsewhere to a unique average weight.
For instance, in SR111, Swissair used 84kg as standard weight for adult
passenters, no gender specified. But the manifest did break down how
many males and female/chil passengers there were.

Note that after some turboprop crashed on takeoff in south east USA
(raleigh ?) a few years ago, the FAA and/or NTSB had called for a
readjustement of passenger weights due to average weight having risen in
the USA.

I was going to say that perhaps they count the number of male/female pax
at the gate, but these days, with automated boarding pass readers, the
gate agents probably don't count as much as before.

John Doe wrote,

OK, this may have been eliminated. But it used to be important to enter
the "Mr" or "Ms" in a reservation, and it would show up on your ticket.


Some airlines have use the title "Dr."? What sex is that?

rg

Gregory Morrow wrote:

mrtravel blabbled:


John Doe wrote:

Mr Travel wrote:

Why would a 125 pound woman have to pay more than a 125 pound man, since
the fuel usage would be the same?

Airlines currently use a different average weight for men and women.

How do they do this?
If I go to AA.COM, for example, book a flight, and enter a passenger
name, there no place to mark the passenger's gender.



If it's your wife's name, you just enter "Whore"...


I bet you'd crap your pants if I showed up at your door, you ****ing
asswipe. Say what you want online, but cower if ever called on it.
I will be in your neck of the woods in the near future. If I were you,
I'd get a securrity system and bodyguards.

On Mon, 26 May 2008 23:03:35 -0700, mrtravel wrote:

Gregory Morrow wrote:

mrtravel blabbled:


John Doe wrote:

Mr Travel wrote:

Why would a 125 pound woman have to pay more than a 125 pound man, since
the fuel usage would be the same?

Airlines currently use a different average weight for men and women.

How do they do this?
If I go to AA.COM, for example, book a flight, and enter a passenger
name, there no place to mark the passenger's gender.



If it's your wife's name, you just enter "Whore"...


I bet you'd crap your pants if I showed up at your door, you ****ing
asswipe. Say what you want online, but cower if ever called on it.
I will be in your neck of the woods in the near future. If I were you,
I'd get a securrity system and bodyguards.

He's just another browser coward playing with himself (herself?
itself?) as he (she? it?) posts his (her? its?) drivel. Ignore him
(her? it?)