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In reply to the discussion: Do you weigh more than 160 lbs? Airlines may soon be charging you more [View all]Polybius
(21,875 posts)41. 82 pounds?
How tall are you if I may ask?
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Do you weigh more than 160 lbs? Airlines may soon be charging you more [View all]
True Dough
Feb 2025
OP
Can you imagine the vitriol if they had employees deciding based on "eyeballing?" No way this is going to work...
hlthe2b
Feb 2025
#13
Probably not, but you should at least be able to donate your pounds under 160 to heavy peeps like travel miles.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Feb 2025
#54
Then we taxpayers must be paying thru the nose for TSF's frequent AF-1 flights.
allegorical oracle
Feb 2025
#4
Given that men virtually all weigh more than that, I doubt this will succeed.
NutmegYankee
Feb 2025
#7
Well, given that may give women an advantage (disproportionately), I'd guess they will
hlthe2b
Feb 2025
#11
Not to worry... when RFK JR bans all the semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and GLP-1 antagonists (Mounjaro)
hlthe2b
Feb 2025
#14
Do you have a handle attached to your back? Are you tied up with string? Do you travel by FedEx?
Hekate
Feb 2025
#47
I don't plan on flying again until they get those incompetent racist dudebros out of the FAA.
Aristus
Feb 2025
#22
I certainly wouldn't trust a passenger declaration of weight to determine weights and balance.
Hope22
Feb 2025
#29
Why not just give us all sleeping pills and put us on a conveyor belt to the cargo hold?
unblock
Feb 2025
#30
Michigan is the only state that has passed a law explicitly prohibiting weight-based discrimination.
Emile
Feb 2025
#34