Comments:US air carrier Spirit Airlines announces $45 carry-on baggage fee

The carriers and the public need to just get over themselves and adjust the ticket pricing for weight.

Yes, I said it. If you weight more, you pay more.

The cost of operating the flight is directly proportional to the weight of the "cargo", which is people. This isn't to say I, or the airlines, don't care about "the value of human life", or anything like that. Everyone has value, as a person. But on a transport system, they are mass times gravity = weight. We don't demand that FDX or UPS carry a box of books at the same price as a box of pillows, but when you fly yourself -- effectively as cargo - the public demands a free ride. Those days must end.

The pricing system obviously wouldn't be completely proportional (e.g., a 15 kilo child wouldn't have a fare 1/5th that of a 75 Kg adult), but there would be a scale of adjustment. Maybe it could even work downward, too, so that if you are below the median weight, you save money.

Because the public and the airlines don't have the sack to own up to this reality we are suffering with all these new and various schemes for charging for baggage, where as the actual goal is to set pricing so that the cost of the flight operation is covered plus a reasonable profit for the airline. The way to do that is to quit fiddling with check bags and carry on bags and charge for the entire weight being carried per ticket, yourself included.

Now please pass the cream cheese.