Weighing people for a flight can’t be far off

AIRPORTS are always tiresome. I took a Ryanair flight on the first day of the new baggage rules. It took some squishing to get everything into the medium-sized handbag you’re only allowed bring, but at the gate, staff seemed (already) utterly weary by the whole thing and were letting everybody on with their bigger bags and a verbal telling-off.

We’re funny about paying for things. I couldn’t care less where I sit, so never pay extra for a seat. I can’t stand plasticky plane food, so bring my own. But I’ll splash out on bottled water when tap will do, or for off-street parking so my car is safe.

Michael O’Leary may have finally got us to the end of our tether though. It’s excessively irritating having the person you end up beside wearing a coat bracing enough to cross the Himalayas and which you know is stuffed with all his clothing because he was too cheap for a bag. Can it be long now before the cost-cutting/money-making (delete as appropriate) measures lead to a fat tax?

Will O’Leary have us all standing on a scale and charging a weight per kilo for our spare tyre? Shouldn’t the skinnies get a bigger bag to even things out? That would keep us off the dreadful ham and cheese panini for good.