PAGO PAGO, American Samoa - A tiny Samoa airline is giving passengers a big reason to lose weight: tickets sold not by the seat, but by the kilogram. Samoa Air planned on Wednesday to start pricing ...

When the obscure airline Samoa Air announced on Tuesday morning that it would begin charging passengers by how much they weighed, you had to wonder: Would such a practice ever catch on at, say, ...

The airline says it's a fairer system that saves some passengers money. The news comes just days after an economist in Norway argued that charging... OK, we've checked the date, and it's April 2, but ...

Samoa Air has become the first airline in the world to start charging passengers based on their weight. The ‘pay what you weigh’ policy has been introduced to help Samoa battle its weight problems, ...

SYDNEY – A Samoan airline that says it is the world's first carrier to charge passengers by their weight rather than per seat defends the plan as the fairest way to fly, in some cases actually ending ...

Samoa Air, the Pacific national airline which flies domestically and last week began connecting Samoa to American Samoa, allows passengers to nominate their weight and then measures them on scales at ...

You may have seen the news that Samoa Air has decided to create a rather unusual pricing plan. Going forward, air fares for its fleet of small planes will be based on weight—not just the weight of ...

Samoa Air is charging passengers based on their weight plus the weight of their baggage. When customers book at Samoa Air’s website, they prepay based on an estimate of their total weight (person plus ...