Diet before flight: price by passenger weight

Are you overweight? You better not order your ticket through Samoa Air airline.

The company, which flies mainly to the islands of Samoa - an independent state in the Pacific – and in between them, recently stated that the tickets will be sold by weight of the traveler. According to the method, the price will be determined by the number of pounds which each passenger will fill in on the company website, and depending on the duration of the flight.

CEO Chris Langton told Australian radio station ABC that it is "the fairest way to fly". "People have always paid for a seat on the flight, but as the airlines are well aware of, the fixed factor for the companies is the weight, not the number of seats. The smaller planes are, the harder it is to deal with the differences in the weight of the passengers. "

Langton argued that families with children will now pay a lower price for the flights, noting that the company does not charge for overweight of luggage. "In general, people are much more aware of weight," he explained. "This is about health. Humans are bigger, wider and longer than they were 50 years ago."

New prices, if you wondered, range from a single dollar to 4.16 dollars per kilogram.

Samoa is considered one of the "fat" countries in the world, with seven out of ten citizens are considered obese. Now the new policy may encourage other airlines to price the tickets by weight of the passenger.

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