General American airline wins right to weigh passengers to prevent crash landings

[tom_mai78101]

An American airline will begin to weigh its passengers to save fuel after it discovered its average passenger and carry-on luggage was heavier than expected.


Hawaiian Airlines will force people to step on the scales if they want to fly the 2,600-mile route between Honolulu and American Samoa, and they will not be able to pre-book seats.

Instead, they will be assigned seats when they check in to make sure weight is evenly distributed around the plane.

Read more here. (Independent UK)

 

[Accname]

I laughed.
I wouldnt believe the weight of individual passengers would play a large enough role given the weight of the plane itself, its fuel and freight. But in the US this kind of problem is apparently possible.