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Airlines to start weighing passengers?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 162453" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>This idea was floated in Australia a year ago or so. It's just a kite flying exercise, nothing more. Some person gets an idea, suggests it to the media and the airline industry, who never even thought of it and probably wouldn't dare try it anyway, get the blame.</p><p></p><p>However - airlines DO need to weigh both passengers and baggage and every so often make a point of doing so, to get a better idea of how much weight it all adds up to per flight. It's vital for them to have accurate estimates of passenger + baggage weights so they can make appropriate adjustments to fuel requirements and controls.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes the media just gets this all blown up out of proportion and they hit the panic button, making wild inaccurate statements like this.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 162453, member: 1991"] This idea was floated in Australia a year ago or so. It's just a kite flying exercise, nothing more. Some person gets an idea, suggests it to the media and the airline industry, who never even thought of it and probably wouldn't dare try it anyway, get the blame. However - airlines DO need to weigh both passengers and baggage and every so often make a point of doing so, to get a better idea of how much weight it all adds up to per flight. It's vital for them to have accurate estimates of passenger + baggage weights so they can make appropriate adjustments to fuel requirements and controls. Sometimes the media just gets this all blown up out of proportion and they hit the panic button, making wild inaccurate statements like this. Marg [/QUOTE]
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