We’ve previously posted about Samoa Airlines novel pricing programs – charging heavier than average passengers higher fares than average girthed passengers – to offset higher fuel costs to haul them and protect other passengers from “seat encroachment”.
Suffice it to say that readers’ scale tilted away from the idea.
For background, see:
Samoa Air: Pricing by weight is the ‘concept of the future’
Why don’t airlines charge more for these bags?
Well, now GoAir – an Indian airline – has initiated a weight-based program that rolls back the clock to the 50s and 60s.
The Homa Files 