Why is Air New Zealand weighing passengers?
New Zealand鈥檚 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 over a five-week period in order to gather data on the weight load and distribution for planes.
Michael Baird is an aviation expert in Australia. He told Newsday: 鈥淚t can be quite a sensitive topic but I think from a passenger point of view the benefit is that you are weighed with your carry-on luggage鈥� and also the weights will not be visible to anybody鈥� even yourself. It will just be recorded.鈥�
(Picture: Shows an Air New Zealand plane taking off from Auckland Airport. Credit: William West / AFP via Getty Images.)
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