Fat People Cost Airlines Big Time
from the wonderful dept
And you thought the biggest problem with overweight people on airplanes was that one might sit next to you and overcrowd your tiny seat. Turns out a much bigger issue for the airline industry may be that fat people are a drag... literally. The growing obesity problem in the US means that planes fly heavier, and that's costing big bucks in fuel. In fact, a new report suggests that this... um... weighty issue meant 350 million extra gallons of fuel in the year 2000 (it took them this long to get these stats?!?) costing approximately $275 million. No wonder the airlines are going bankrupt. Maybe some of these newer airlines need to set up exercise rooms in the airlines, rather than comfier seats. Get people out of the seats and moving around... It's for the good of the industry.
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Math problem of the day
Answer:
x = Andy's arrival time (0 x < 60)
y = Kasumi's arrival time (0 < y < 60)
Joint distribution function f(x,y) = 1/3,600
Case 1: Andy arrives before Kasumi
Wait time function g(x,y) = y - x
Find expected value E(g(x,y)):
double-integrate g(x,y) * f(x,y) from x = 0 to 60, y = x to 60
Answer = 10 minutes
Case 2: Kasumi arrives before Andy
by symmetry, answer = 10 minutes
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Before boarding, make everyone weigh in. if you're more than 5% over the average, you can pay for the honor. I doubt that this by itself is going to help the obesity problem, but it is certainly a step in the right direction.
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Or airline execs who salivate at the thought of making ANYONE pay a "fat tax"
I can see it now:
"I'm sorry sir, you are 5'11 and 185, you are 35 pounds overweight, the surtax will be 237.54..thank you and have a nice day"
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A step in the right direction?!?!?
Don't make me make someone else invoke godwin's law.
Obesity is pretty personal situation...please don't say you want govt to dictate your WEIGHT?!?!?
Maybe length of hair next(gets caught in subway doors), perhaps a dress code(short skirts giving men evil thoughts).
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That wouldn't work. You can't do it by weight. I mean, if you've got a 200lb 4ft9 woman - wait this is American [right?] (no effence to Americans, but the vast majority are overweight - it's just the facts people!). start again.
Ok, lets say there is a 297lb woman who is 4ft 11" and a 297lb 6"1 muscle man and that they are both 10% over the average weight. who has to pay fat tax? you can't say yes to the woman but no to the man (she'll see it as sexist - big no-no.) because they're the same weight. you've gotta do it on body fat or something (note: BMI is useless 'cause that's just height/weight ratio and makes the muscle man clinicaly obese).
The other issue is that the lines in airports are enormous already; creating a Fat Tax will make them even longer, meaning you're going to need to be there 3 hours before for just DOMESTIC flights (and i'm getting up and 5 in the morning for them when you have to be there and hour before; gotta love traffic).
I'm not saying that obesity isn't a problem and well, we all hate sitting next to a really fat person on a plane, but fat tax is not the way to go folks.
Thanks for your time... not that many of you actually read to the end of this.
J.
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275 million - not that much?
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Baggage Weight
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Charge by the pound
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TAX -- REFUND
They could prorate it based on each flight. You weigh in, they collect the surcharge from Mr and Ms hefty, keep 50% to cover their 'costs' and then redistribute the remaining 50% back to the customers who are packing extra tonage underneath their clothes.
Hey, Overweight people could become the next ostrisized group of people. We've pretty much consigned the smokers to the bowels of their own homes.
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If you bought in million gallon lots, you'd get gas at an equivalent price.
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You reversed the numbers
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Tax weight? No, tax width!
Also hell isn't a long flight next to a fat person, it's a long flight BEHIND a fat person. Coming back from web.builder stuck behind Marc Canter taught me that.
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Data is incomplete, the airlines are really ahead
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airlines business is
they have blessed us with seats that never fit me overweight or not, and now the final insult.
this trend is what will result as other people gradually tell everyone else how to live think and breath, and is just one of the first stabs at correcting all this bad behaviour we have
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Craziness
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I AM FAT!
MY MOM LOVES ME BEING HAPPY EATING FOOD ONCE I SAT IN A SCHOOL CHAIR AND ITS LEGS BROKE SO I GOT A BIG SEAT MY TEACHER SAID ITS UNHEALTHU BUT I DONT CARE I EAT MORE THEN MY MOM AND DAD FOR A WEEK SOMTIMES I DONT SLEEP AND EAT ALL NIGHT MY BF LOVES MY FAT AND JUST PLAYS WITH IT AND WE DO IT AND HE SAYS THE FAST MAKES IT GOOD AND HE IS SKINNY MY MOM AND DAD ARE SKINNY BUT THEY ARE SO HAPPY THAT I AM HAPPY WHEN I EAT SOMEPEOPLE SAY THEY CAN HELP ME LIKE MY EX-BFF
I HAVE A NEW ONE
ONCE I TRIED TO GO ON A PLANE BUT I COULD NOT FIT IN IT AT ALL
I WEAR BIG PEOPLE CLOTHES AND IM ALMOST OUT OF THEM
I LOVE TO EAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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