Frontier Airlines announced that their passengers, on average, are 17 pounds lighter than the average American. Frontier's senior vice president of operations Chris Collins explained, "there's a lot of healthy people in Denver. I think that's been proven. So we went out and did our own survey."

As a past and current Denver resident, I can't not report on those findings. But I do find it pretty funny that Frontier issues these types of surveys....lots of free time, I suppose.

But in their defense, skinny passengers = lower fuel costs and those savings ARE important. In fact, Collins estimates that by applying those lower-weight standards to its flight-planning system, they will enjoy a savings of about $3.5 million in fuel! Go Frontier.