To think I'm entitled to extra baggage allowance??

[SlmHlb]

After six years in London, I'm moving back to Perth in October. Currently planning how to get my belongings (not that many) back with me. AIBU to think that I should be allowed more than the 20kg luggage allowance because I don't weigh very much? I'm 59kg. If I weighed 30kg more I'd still get the same allowance. Grossly unfair!

It's the 'I'm alright jack' school of social organisation. The same people probably moan about their taxes going to pay for feckless poor people or type 2 diabetes. Until of course they lose their own job or find their blood sugar soaring - but that's different, they were just unlucky.

I love daft threads like this.

No of course it isn't discriminatory. Cause you can chose whether to be a 6 foot man or a 4 foot woman, with corresponding weight. Oh, wait- you can't?

Choose

SlmHlb - how tall are you?

What is difficult about a scale at the check-in counter to stand on with your luggage?

Exactly

You need some chunky people on a flight, what if the plane crashes on a mountain and you have to eat people, if everyone is 50KG no one is going to survive very long!

I do find it fairly ironic that you are so worried about the fairness of air travel when you are going to live in Australia, the reason I moved home was because I couldn't get my head around living somewhere where in my opinion the system was so very very unfair to the indigenous Australians.

Me and DP would be fucked! He is a huge bloke (not fat at all) well over 6ft and 17st and i am just over 5ft 10 and 13st (size 12 - so not that weight because i eat pies).

How is that not discriminatory?

Of course tall people can't help their height, just as some people are overweight for reasons out of their control. I'm not suggesting the baggage difference should be some sort of punishment for people. It's just a fact that weight has a direct effect on airline costs and therefore ticket prices. Maybe I should just go and eat some biscuits

There was an episode of air crash investigation where one plane crashed and everyone died due to the way they worked out weight. They have an 'average weight' for people, which is of course now heavier than it used to be

I am intrigued as to how grouping people because of weight isn't discriminatory?

There is no way you would get me to stand on scales in an airport!

How would being told "your fat you can't take as much on your holiday" be anything but a punishment?

It could be based on a bmi basis taking into account ideal height and weight for each particular sex.

message from the tall people,

If you start being sizest and we will stop passing items off the top shelf at the supermarket.

Okay, I'll go along with this, if they also adjust all the seats on the plane (I know they can move) so that there's a section for short people and a section for tall people, so that those of us who tend to spend an entire flight with our knees jammed into the seatback in front of us can actually get some relief.

I love how people get all irritated with their fellow passengers instead of with the airlines who create these situations.

OP - I currently have some really nice dark chocolate hobnobs I am going to put the kettle on now and it is all your fault.

Because it doesn't address the issue of the extra burdens placed on the airline of people having excess baggage beyond merely the issue of offsetting the extra fuel.
There are many issues which are factual that can still be classed as discriminatory even if they are indirectly so. A universal height restriction in the police force would be factual but it would be more likely to restrict women, and so even though it would be universal and factual it would indirectly discriminate against women.

quoteunquote I just snorted the cuppa tea I am about to make - passes dark choc hobnobs to quoteunquote

I am always getting tall people to pass me stuff down from the top shelf

Don't be stupid. Your body weight is irrelavant. Do you think a disabled person should lose some of their baggage allowance cos ya know their wheel chair adds a few kilos? What about a pregnant women? She for those 9 months loses a few pairs of jeans in her bag

Fly Emirates. 30kg luggage allowance even for fatties like me ......

Ok, tall and fat people can no longer fly. Problem solved.

BMI is flawed tho. Many very fit people have a high BMI.

And now i'm pregnant and 3 stone heavier too. There would have to be so many exceptions it would be a nightmare.

No, it should not be based on BMI for each age/gender etc. The argument is, x amount of weight per passenger. Either you think it should be that way, or it shouldn't. :)

It could be based on a bmi basis taking into account ideal height and weight for each particular sex.

Well hold on, a minute ago this was a purely factual and logical exercise. Now it's a judgment one surely. If 6'3" fourteen stone guy doesn't pay excess why should 5'2" fourteen stone guy?
Aerodynamics and physics don't care that one is athletic and healthy while the other is fat, it still takes the same amount if energy to transport them

OP please.

Don't!

Remember when the difference in retirement age was challenged and, instead of it equalising down to women's (60) it went up to 63 and is now 66 - 68?

Any attempt to include extra baggage alowance for lightweights will most certainly backfire.

Slime-An-Air will specify a 'standard' body weight - probably equivalent to a catwalk princess' size 0 and then charge everyone else for 'extra' weight!

All other so-called 'budget' airlines will gleefully follow.