Step up onto the scale, please.
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wrote on 20 May 2021, 13:05 last edited by
The survey is said to be conducted on a voluntary basis, so if a passenger declines to participate, the airline is advised to select another traveler at random, according to the guidance.
That’s going to introduce sample bias. Obesity and refusal to cooperate will correlate.
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wrote on 20 May 2021, 13:44 last edited by Catseye3
Not to mention the horrifying image of wait-listed passengers all flapping their hands at the airline guy and shouting, "Pick me! Pick me! Oh, please! Pick me!" While the rejected fat guy is curled on the floor in terminal humiliation.
Oh yeah, great idea, that.
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wrote on 20 May 2021, 13:45 last edited by
That will be good for train travel. Like getting scanned, prodded and searched isn't enough.
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wrote on 20 May 2021, 15:09 last edited by Copper
It makes sense to me.
Imagine how good you'll feel when you hear them tell the guy in front of you "Get lost fatso" or "That's another $100 chubby".
All that diet and exercise was worth it.
Of course with the planes I flew I had to know the weight of everyone and everything onboard. So I had to ask people how much they weighed.
They always lie.
I'd add 10 or 20 pounds to whatever they say. Or I'd tell them the limit was lower than it actually was. They'd thank me when the plane got off the ground.
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wrote on 20 May 2021, 16:23 last edited by
Planes that carry 70 or more passengers will still use the CDCstandard weight numbers for estimated total weight of the passengers and baggage.
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wrote on 20 May 2021, 17:24 last edited by
There are few things as worrying as watching a really, really large person walking down the aisle, and wondering whether you're going to be spending the next 7 hours in his intimate company.
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wrote on 21 May 2021, 01:23 last edited by
One of the south pacific asia airlines (like Air Tahiti or something) already does that and requires it. But they only fly kind of small planes.
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wrote on 21 May 2021, 11:51 last edited by
Given the correlation between income and obesity I am surprised we haven’t heard about thin white privilege and this initiative getting cancelled accordingly.
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wrote on 22 May 2021, 10:26 last edited by
If the point is merely to know about the weight, why not just weight the whole plane? Actually, I would have assumed that modern airplanes can already measure their own weight.
If it is really necessary to compute passenger weight, then it shouldn't be too hard to do that automatically without anyone noticing or explicitly stepping on a scale.