Airline passengers getting charged by the pound? Advantage Asians??

[theking]

New Zealand airline is asking passengers to weigh in before their flights


New Zealand's national airline is asking passengers to step on the scales before they board international flights.

Air New Zealand says it wants to weigh 10,000 passengers during a monthlong survey so pilots can better know the weight and balance of their planes before takeoff.

But the numbers from the scales won't be flashing up for all to see. There will be no visible display anywhere, the airline promised, and the weigh-in data will remain anonymous even to airline staff.

“We weigh everything that goes on the aircraft — from the cargo to the meals onboard, to the luggage in the hold," said Alastair James, a load control improvement specialist for the airline, in a statement. "For customers, crew and cabin bags, we use average weights, which we get from doing this survey.”

Indeed the numbers are required by the nation's industry watchdog, the Civil Aviation Authority.

[Hung_Low]

Yep... they claimed it's for safety but I bet it'll become fees later.

No advantage for Asian at all... I've seen too many obese Asian in America and China.

[DuMa]

You know that if a plane needs to make an emergency landing or to another landing location, it will need to dump out fuel and it dumps them at the tip of their wings. 

So when a plane is about to take off, it gets enough fuel and will use up most so that when it lands, the lighter weight is more ideal for the landing.  If it lands on a full tank of fuel, it is like a fat guy trying to land after jumping off the roof.  It will not be a pretty splash.