Comments by "HalfSourLizard" (@halfsourlizard9319) on "Airlines WEIGHT SHAMING?! And TUI flight 7226 Serious Incident, Explained." video.

I've totally seen that on smaller prop planes -- both weighing people and asking people to move to rebalance.
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@kazansky22 Funny how laws of physics seem to stay the same, eh?
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Making security checkpoints even slower seems like the worst idea imaginable.
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Your weight isn't terribly private -- it's really quite obvious to everyone if you're a fatty.
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That doesn't tell you anything about how it's distributed.
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Airlines should charge you more to fly ... in the same way that FedEx does if you ship a heavy package ... it costs more to move your fat ass and the rest of us shouldn't subsidise that.
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@globalvoice... Obviously. But, if you want to have more space / weight occupied, you pay for it -- this is bleedingly obvious with air freight (precisely because it's a major cost factor); no reason that it should be different with passengers. And, it's already done to some extent: If you want to have more space (e.g., a 1st-class seat) allocated to you, you pay more. Doesn't seem like rocket science that weight is also a highly-relevant factor.
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@carcharhinus_555 I never stand anywhere ... just walk through the scanner + done.
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@markuskuhn9375 lol, plane crashed because Big American Bob ate 100kg of doughnuts after weigh-in
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Why shouldn't heavier people be charged more? It costs more to ship a heavier package for a reason ...
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Airlines enjoy making money. They put people in the seats that they pay for. If you want a bigger seat, pay for it.
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 @cabanford The point is: You get the value that you pay for ... and should expect nothing else.
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How would weighing them together help? The bags aren't stored in the same location as the passengers ... so knowing only the aggregate weight provides zero useful information to keep the plane balanced.
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@richardsmith579 Yes, and so does distribution of that weight.
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