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After more than 30,000 passengers voted to levy charges on overweight passengers, Ryanair may consider imposing a ‘fat tax’ on obese passengers. This controversial move was just announced this week when more than a third of all the passengers with the airline choose in favor of charging fees to obese passengers.

Stephen McHamara from Ryanair said that a ‘fat tax’ will only apply to passengers who are very large. This means that it will be applied to people who invade the space of passengers who are sitting next to them. The use of such a tax could then be used to lower the airfare of Ryanair passengers even further.

This idea comes up after United Airlines announced just last week that it would start charging overweight people more, if they could not fit into an economy seat. People must be able to put their arm rest down and fasten their seat belts without the use of extensions. The overweight people on United Airlines do not have to pay for an extra seat if there are extra seats available that they can move to with no one else around.
Studies show that most men are too broad shouldered to be able to fit in an economy seat and not bother their neighbor. Studies also show that from 1951 to 2002, one in every seven women have added an extra 1.5 inches to their hips.

The end results of Ryanair’s survey found out that 29% of people were in favor of fees for overweight people. This was higher than any other fees that were voted for. Twenty-five percent of people voted for a fee for toilet paper while 24% of people voted for a fee to smoke in a converted lavatory cubicle.

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