"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
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John Mazor wrote:

"Sylvia Else" wrote in message
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Pooh Bear wrote:

I'm kind of assuming this is a troll given the obesity mentioned.

The possibility of a troll didn't occur to me. Mind you, I'm not used
to
thinking of weights in pounds, so I missed the obesity.

Such people should pay more for their tickets. How come I pay for
excess
baggage when this guy weighs more than my baggage and me put together?

How come we can pay significantly more for a 300-mile trip between two
small
markets than for a 3000-mile trip in a competitive city pair? Because
airline market imperatives dictate that the cost of a service and its
price
aren't always directly related.

The market works in funny ways!

Being factual, there's a fixed cost in 'passenger handling' not to mention
the
same for an aircraft.

I would expect short flights to be more expensive per mile than long haul.

Absolutely, but not by a factor of five or ten.

Airlines also need to fill seats and do so according to accountancy rules.

Eh? I don't know what "accountancy rules" means here, but it all boils down
to charging whatever the market will bear, and its corollary, not charging
what the market won't bear. Why don't they charge you for that first bag?
Because the market expects you not to, and won't pay for it if there is a
competitive alternative.