Step up onto the scale, please.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
