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Hawaiian Airlines is not charging more for heavy passengers, they are delaying seat assignment and assigning seats based on weight (for better weight distributi
by Johnny555 10y ago
Hawaiian Airlines is not charging more for heavy passengers, they are delaying seat assignment and assigning seats based on weight (for better weight distribution):
So Hawaiian Airlines instituted a new policy. People flying between Honolulu and American Samoa would no longer be able to select their seats before arriving at the airport. Instead, they would be assigned seats when they checked in so that the carrier could distribute their weight evenly around the plane.
Ironically, Samoa Air (from their own country) does charge by weight:
...Samoa Air in 2013 became the first airline to charge passengers by weight.
- tylerhou 10y agoI think the person's objection is that the logic presented in that paragraph is pretty terrible. (Otherwise, the paragraph reads like a bad joke, which should have no place in formal writing, especially not writing as reputable as the Economist.)
- dagw 10y agoThe Economist has always included the occasional joke and bad pun in its articles to lighten the mood. It's one of its charms.