• @CobblerScholar
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      489 months ago

      I can just see the travel tips article telling you to go donate blood and take diuretics before you get weighed for your ticket

      • @niktemadur
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        89 months ago

        I can see a class action lawsuit if they ever switch to that. And I imagine there wouldn’t be that risk if airlines had priced their tickets based on weight from the very start back in the Roaring Twenties.

    • @[email protected]
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      9 months ago

      Said by someone who hasn’t thought this through at all.

      People would intentionally dehydrate themselves to save money, it’s dangerous.

      • @[email protected]
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        59 months ago

        If you’re so poor you have to dehydrate yourself pre flight to save 2kgs of weight you shouldn’t be spending your money on plane tickets.

        • @5too
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          89 months ago

          It’s not that they necessarily have to, some people will anyway to save a buck. And then you’re just incentivising dangerous behavior.

      • @[email protected]
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        29 months ago

        that’s amazing! I wonder why children got a further discount. I wonder if it’s a coincidence they are no longer flying.