If airlines decided to help fat people

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Let's say 300 passengers at $1000/ticket. So the plane is aimed to make $300,000 per flight.

Yokozuna gets on the plane and occupies 6 seats (they remove 3 seats in front of him and he sits on 3 seats). Now that's only 295 tickets sold, at $295,000 with Yoko costing the airline $5,000.

So to get that $5,000 back, the ticket price becomes $1017. Thus each passenger is paying $17 to accomodate Yokozuna.

Let's add 9 more fat people that only need 2 seats. So that knocks 9 more seats with a total of 10 fat passengers using a total of 24 seats, leaving room for 286 passengers total, thus bringing the ticket cost to $1049.

So would you take a 5% price hike in plane tickets so fat people would only need to buy 1 ticket? Would it even be noticed?

I personally comfortably fit in the seat (as in if I were 20 pounds heavier I wouldn't fit), and I come from a very obese family.

[Mozenrath]

I'd take it over people getting treated humiliatingly, but it's airlines. They adore treating people like shit.

[Paul]

It all comes down to money.

[Bo Rida]

No. Weight as well as capacity effect how much it costs. Average and below sized people are already subsidising them as they essentially get to carry excess baggage for free.