First airline launches 'pay as you weigh' flights

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Samoa Air has become the first airline to implement "pay as you weigh" flights. Overweight passengers will have to pay more for seats and will be weighed on scales at the airport.

"This is the fairest way of travelling," said chief executive of Samoa Air Chris Langton, adding: "A kilo is a kilo is a kilo."

The rates vary depending on the distance flown, from 65p per kilo on the airline's shortest domestic route to about £2.70 per kilo. Like many Pacific island nations, Samoa has a serious obesity problem.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/first-airline-launches-pay-as-you-weigh-flights-8558601.html

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The pre-holiday diet just got even more important for those planning on travelling on Samoa Air, which has announced that its passengers will "pay only for what you weigh".

Customers would be charged not only for what they weigh, but also their luggage. The airline's chief executive, Chris Langton, said that not only were people heavier than before, but also the variation in people's weight was, er, large. "Anyone who travels at times has felt they have been paying for half of the passenger next to them," he said.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/bad-news-for-samoas-prop-forwards-airline-introduces-payasyouweigh-pricing-8558904.html