Have you ever stated on your plane ticket that you will be carrying hand luggage and when you arrive at the airport it is weighed? And when it goes out of bounds – even for a while – not only do they take it from you to put it with the suitcases, but to pay more money; We may experience all this for our body weight.
Eat lightly before your trip, especially if you plan to travel with Air New Zealand. Its Civil Aviation Service New Zealand is asking its national airline to weigh passengers departing on international flights from Auckland International Airport by July 2, 2023.
The program, which Air New Zealand calls “passenger weight survey”, is a way of collecting data about the load and the weight distribution for airplanesaccording to what the airline said.
“We weigh everything that goes into the aircraft – from cargo to meals and hold baggage,” Alastair James, the airline’s cargo screening improvement specialist, said in a statement.
However, personal weight is an affair that not everyone wishes to reveal. In order to protect people’s privacy, the airline says the data will be anonymized.
Travelers will be asked to stand on a digital scale when checking in for their flight. Subsequently, the weight information they will be investigated, but they will not be visible on the agent screen. They will also place their luggage on another identical scale for separate weighing.
“We know getting on the scale can be daunting. We want to reassure our customers that there is no visible screen anywhere. No one can see your weight, not even us,” James stated.
This is not the first time Air New Zealand has asked passengers to step on the scales before boarding their flights. The domestic passengers took part in a survey in 2021, but the one for international travelers was delayed due to the pandemic. In accordance with cnn.comamong the people who may be asked to take part in the research are and those traveling on the direct flight from Oakland to New York’s JFK airport.
Source: News Beast
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