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Old 24th October 2012 | 10:55
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Taken from Aviation 101 for the slow of learning and hard of understanding
Not really, though, is it? Taken from Aviation Operations 101, perhaps. Certainly not taken from Aviation Business, which is a whole other discipline. Maybe it's only a discipline for the slow of learning and hard of understanding.

Aviation Business 101 - if you discriminate against a passenger group, your competitor will pick up your spill.

In this case (banning fat people), corporate travel departments will not be able to make bookings with the discriminating airline becuse they are not privy to passenger weight information (lost revenue); the obese traveler's family will also not travel with you, so it's often not 1 ticket lost, it's 2, 3 or more (it'd be 4 in my case) - (more lost revenue); 'word of mouth' will ensure that others will also not travel with the airline 'just in case they're too fat' (a bit more lost revenue).

So sisemen, you make the case for the development of a leisure airline carrying ony slim people and their relatives. How big is that market, exactly?

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