Airlines to weigh passengers before boarding

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www.thesun.co.uk/travel/8895844/airlines-weigh-passengers-save-fuel/?utm_campaign=sunmainfacebook040919&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1567623178

Spotted this in the sun.

Many allow 88kg (13.8 stone) for men, 70kg (11 stone) for women and 35kg (5.5 stone) for children

This bit confused me a little bit, is that their estimate they use for calculating fuel consumption? My partner and children weigh more than that estimate

I wonder what their weight limit will be? 🤔
And I can see shit will hit the fan when/if this does come into force, and passengers are excluded from the flight

I've always wondered why as a 50kg person I have to have the same luggage allowance as someone twice my weight

You should be able to offset your weight and your bag weight

That would discriminate against taller people, why should shortarses have a larger bag allowance.

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It is entirely about calculating fuel requirements, but to me it smacks of cutting safety margins down perhaps too far. There are already incidents of aircraft running into trouble because they are low on fuel. (google certain low cost airlines)

This story sounds ridiculous to me. The weight of the plane changes as the flight progresses, due to fuel useage. Will people have to get up and change seats to equalise the weight ?

Also, with a plane load of about 300 passengers, you'll have some light people, some heavier ones, and many average ones. I'm guessing that the weight averages itself out. That is why no plane passengers get weighed now, and why planes are not falling out of the sky due to weight imbalances.

Will women’s tickets cost less?

Me and my teenage dds are 5'0 , weigh under 50kg and fly regularly but I still think this is unfair and that everyone should have the same fare and allowance . I've never thought twice about this !

ok am fat if i get charged more i want a much bigger seat

Exactly nanny3, if fat people have to pay more then they should also get more room. I fit in a seat but I am more than 11 stone and wouldn’t mind paying a relative fee for that percentage over 11 stone more if I got the equivalent percentage more space.

I'm 5'8", weigh 12 stone, but am a size 10. Should I be penalised for being slim and muscular? 🤔

Will people have to get up and change seats to equalise the weight ?

I've had to do that in the past.

ok am fat if i get charged more i want a much bigger seat

Again, read the article, 'it is not about penalising people fore their weight.

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It’s an average and makes sense. You must be really tall to be over 70kg, OP.

Hahaha

So, a child’s weight should be 35kg then. So an 11yo who has already started puberty (not unusual) and therefore has started growing to their full adult size is .... over the limit and might need to pay more?!?

A man who has the unfortunate idea to grow taller than the average and therefore weights more.... should be paying more etc....

Don’t be fooled.
Up to now airlines have coped very well wo weighting passengers. They’ve coped well in their calculations for fuel etc etc.
But convincing passengers they have be weight NOW with no ‘effect’ on price etc.. nicely pave the way to people finding weighing normal and THEN asking people to pay more if they are over the ‘ideal’ weight.
Add the that the idea of seats that aren’t seats but fancy stools to be able to pack more people in the plane and you can see where all this is going...

I've always wondered why as a 50kg person I have to have the same luggage allowance as someone twice my weight

You should be able to offset your weight and your bag weight

Because you are not paying a weight allowance to go on the plane (in this case, children would be paying very little for example despite the fact they are using a full seat). You are paying for a seat, aka a space in the plane to be able to sit down. And that space is the same for everyone. Tall or small, big or underweight. And that space will take you for A to B.
If what you were paying was a weight allowance, they people having only a light hand baggage should be paying less than people who use the full amount of luggage allowance etc....

Basically, it works both ways.

People with only hand luggage often do pay less than those with luggage in the hold.

How ridiculous. My skinny 10 year old weighs over 6 stone. There is not an ounce of fat on her. Although maybe 5 stone is an average of the heavier and lighter children combined?

And people saying women who weigh over 70 kilos are overweight are also mistaken.

The laws of physics don’t care that that retired basketballer in seat 23A is a perfectly healthy weight at 15 stone, or that the tiny Bangladeshi woman next to him is dangerously overweight at 10 stone. They’re going to require 50% more fuel to fly him than her regardless.

This will do one of two things for me

1. Stop me ever flying again
2. Make me lose weight

I do wonder though if you weigh 11 stone when you go on your holidays gain a stone on your vacation will you be weighed again when you come home.

Objectively it sounds sensible to get the right fuel. There is no point basing the calculations on an average if you have a flight of rugby players for example as it will be wrong.

If it’s just to calculate fuel requirements, no problem.

If it’s to be used as a tool to get yet more money out of passengers, that’s a huge problem. I’m overweight but could probably scrape by because of my height, but tall people can’t lose height, can they? And when I was a 12 year old child I had already reached my adult weight and height due to early development.

Bloody hell! The ignorance of some
posters is mind boggling!! Regardless of the actual article, comments like this show high levels of stupid..

This is a good idea, so would charging them extra mainly because it would help to un-normalise being grossly overweight. Why should those with healthy weights and BMI pay the same as obese people?

Really, you think a woman over 11 stone is “grossly overweight” and “obese” 🙄, got some serious issues there haven’t you!! FYI at 12 stone 7 I’m a size 12 (6’ & a woman). Since when is that obese!? Bonkers attitudes on here, no wonder hospital wards are full of people with eating disorders, you have to hope posters like that don’t have kids they spout that shit to!!

leaving aside the issue of how fat-phobic this shitty suggestion is, I weigh fractionally under 80kg, which is within the healthy BMI range for my height. Why should I have to pay more than somebody else just because they're short?!

@topttumps please read my other comments on the thread before having a pop!

This already happens on small planes. It's about fuel not money. Having just got off a flight I think they need to up the averages, 80kg for women 110 for men minimum !