02-18-2010
06:49 PM
4 Loves
Great revenue idea!!!
*Continue to make the seating area smaller and smaller so that the average seated person is about 135 pounds (NOTE: Average Male in US is 195 lbs).
*Define a "policy" that allows you to catch someone on a trip so they have no choice but to pony up with some extra cash to make it home.
*Save money on gas because even though you've alloted the seat at 135 lbs, you now have one person at 195 lbs that paid for two seats, net 75 pounds for the seat and maybe another 50 for luggage and carry ons.
*Create a biggoted consideration that all people over 135 pounds are "slobs". Bearing in mind that Michael Phelps, who some might consider the most athletic human being on the planet, has a BMI that qualifies him as OVERWEIGHT. I guarantee you sit next to that man and he is going to "encroach" on the seat next to him.
*Smokers are ok because they don't smoke on the plane, and of course they all brush their teeth and don't drink coffee so they smell like daisies.
*Traveling with a kid? Let's have sound proof cages at the back of the plane of better yet, require the parents to tranquilize them before they board. A cork would be appropriate to eliminate any poopy diapers.
Let's talk "Safety". Then let's eliminate half the elderly who board a plane as "getting in the way", let alone those folks who are mobility or mentally challenged. Don't let some damned little kid get in your way when you rushing out the aisle of your sinking airplane, sitting in the aisle crying for his Mommy.
How damn pathetic!!!
Serve the customer! ALL the customers! Be reasonable with the space. Don't press it to the point where you've crammed in so many "minis" that you can't accommodate the RANGE THAT IS HUMANLY and REASONABLY possible.
Charge MORE for everyone, or be prepared to charge everyone like you do freight...a set cost, up front and expected.
I'll bet that at the root of all of this, there is a manager who is holed up in his office with his knees to his chest, wishing that during that mornings meeting he was less than zealous in his challenge to his staff to find ways to increase revenue and happened to point out an obscure and rarely executed 25 year old policy.
May to go for that guy! I can only say how thankful I am that it happened now and that no airline in their right mind is going to bug me when I fly in a couple of months for vacation.
And to all you "normals" out there who are picking on people bigger than you...how very petty you really are, we can lose weight, you will always be PUNY.
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