Weighing passengers to become standard for Bangkok Airways

[NemoH]

What is the purpose of all this ? 
Make fat people pay more n slim people pay less ? 
Safety - balancing the plane?

Creating comfort for passengers to re allocate seats for fat n slim? 
 

Do let me know if anyone has an answer .. 

Edited September 17, 2023 by NemoH

[rwill]

Yet somehow planes have been taking off for decades without weighing passengers.

 

I can only see one purpose and that is to add more fees.

[Dukeleto]

58 minutes ago, Jonathan Swift said:

You do know that the general population is not composed of musclebound athletes, but rather people who simply eat more of the wrong kinds of foods and get too little regular exercise. So for every one Schwarzenegger there are 1000 obese sweaty Burts. 

Your ratio is way of! It's probably 1: millions.

[Expat68]

About time, ridiculous a 64 kg person only allowed the same luggage as a 128 kg person. 

[redwood1]

Considering this has never needed to be done before, and now its wanted you must ask WHY.....

 

My guess is they could really care less your weight.....But this is training for more extensive scans and probes at a later date...

[Bobydog]

1 hour ago, Deserted said:

Seems rather unnecessary.

So you would be happy flying in an.unbalanced aircraft and accept any consequences? 

[ezzra]

I'll have to remember to remove my wallet before getting on them scales...

[DudleySquat]

1 hour ago, Aussie999 said:

I understand that, but does that mean they will reassign seats, splitting up families/friends/ etc in order to balance/trim the aircraft? 

Putting the fatties on one side of the plane and the skinny people on the other side will do wonders for the W&B. 

 

 

[jacko45k]

4 hours ago, ukrules said:

Maybe they also start measuring our leg length and issue better seats to those who are tall?

Want better seats, pay for Premium Class.... don't make your weight someone else's problem! ????

[10baht]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

demanding that passengers step on the scales before they step onto the plane.

It's about time, but they need to say something like 275lbs including bags are free( ticket price). So someone who weighs 150lbs has 125lbs of baggage allowance. If they don't do that they are just screwing everyone- oh that is what the airlines are good at.

[DudleySquat]

I called a few airlines and suggested porta-potties at every gate. 

 

If everyone could take a huge dump at the gate, the savings in aviation fuel would be tremendous.

 

Save the planet by LEAVING YOUR CRAP BEHIND.

 

An insider told me 

Edited September 17, 2023 by DudleySquat

[LS24]

2 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

They need to charge for excess fat

What about excess muscle?

[ukrules]

7 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Want better seats, pay for Premium Class.... don't make your weight someone else's problem! ????

Weight has nothing to do with being 6'2

[RickyJB]

2 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

They need to charge for excess fat

totally agree, i was on a Finn Air flight  and  a family of 3 sat next to me, every one of them seriously overweight, the 12 year old boy was bigger than me, not one of them could get the tray down for their meal on and the fat guy next to me, was basically hanging over me. im having to lean over the aisle passage. needs to be weight, size restrictions

[Bangkok Barry]

How many accidents, exactly, have there been due to passengers being overweight? The reason for this new and 'necessary' rule is to do with conserving fuel, as mentioned in the post. Maybe they should just take our money and not let us fly. Oh wait - they already did that in the pandemic.

[4MyEgo]

Guess they're gonna have to suck it in ????

 

[jacko45k]

12 minutes ago, LS24 said:

What about excess muscle?

Twice as much as for fat! Need to pay for the bananas. 

[Skipalongcassidy]

2 hours ago, Bim Smith said:

You do know muscle weighs way more than fat so I will have a problem ????. This is about distribution of weight on the aircraft not whether sweaty Burt gets two seats.

One pound of muscle is exactly the same weight as one pound of fat... one pound...  

[sandrew33]

2 hours ago, mania said:

Kind of true & more to the point excess width. Make people walk between two poles

if they don't fit have an up-charge for double seat. Or make wider seats etc

 

Otherwise they get on lift the arm rest and basically are sitting partially on our seat too.

Prices are high enough that we should not be asked to share our seat

Maybe stop designing seats for midgets? ????????‍♂️

[Dazinoz]

If anyone knows about the loading of aircraft it is important that luggage and cargo is weighed so that these items can be loaded to keep the aircraft centre of gravity in the correct position. Large aircraft have crashed before from incorrect loading (mostly cargo aircraft). Can't remember standard passenger weight "assumption" used in calculations but people are generally getting bigger and carry more stuff onto plane. I can't see a problem with weighing people and carry on stuff for more accurate loading and thus safety..

 

Charging for extra weight is another story. But I guess most airlines allow a certain weight for checked luggage and passenger pays for extra. I know discrimination card will be raised but, as I said it is another story.

[Muhendis]

12 minutes ago, ukrules said:

Weight has nothing to do with being 6'2

Very true.  The average weight is more important. Even load distribution would indeed help keep fuel consumption down.

[mania]

1 hour ago, Aussie999 said:

I understand that, but does that mean they will reassign seats, splitting up families/friends/ etc in order to balance/trim the aircraft? 

That thought also crossed my mind. Doubt they would split families but they could redistribute some if they found the plane as loaded would be tail or nose heavy by X%

 

I also immediately wondered if on average were 1st class passengers usually heavier than economy passenger ????

But I think the general trend these days is heavier in all sectors

Edited September 17, 2023 by mania

[Skipalongcassidy]

This will be enforced exactly as the carry on baggage rules... 

[portlandtree]

3 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

They need to charge for excess fat

So small Thais get a discount??

[mania]

20 minutes ago, sandrew33 said:

Maybe stop designing seats for midgets? ????????‍♂️

Majority fly no complaints so maybe designed for average people not designed for midgets but not designed for plus sized either ????

 

But if plus sized they dont want to pay for a larger seat anyway right? I mean would they want to pay for say 1.5 seats & they get two seats to use? Probably not

 

But asking the airline to make larger seats means less seats per flight / income per flight you think they will just eat that or charge more? I think we know the answer as both Business class & First Class are wider seats than Economy but of course charge more.

 

Truthfully it seems more on the larger person to accept they cannot order from the kiddie menu because its not enough for them ????

Edited September 18, 2023 by mania

[bbbbooboo]

hmmmm...yes there are far too many overweight passengers, particularly Thais

[ikke1959]

i am wondering if it is an obligation. and what if somebody refuses ?? There is something as privacy and is this not against Human rights?? Nobody has to know my weight. but if it is only for the weight in the plane, they should enforce the maximum weight of luggage and handbags too 

[klauskunkel]

2 hours ago, Ironman1958 said:

two very large ladies

they could be used as floatation devices...

[Reigntax]

2 hours ago, stoner said:

weight is kind of important when it comes to keeping a steel structure flying through the air at hundreds of miles an hour. 

Lucky planes aren’t  made of steel

Edited September 18, 2023 by Reigntax

[RichardColeman]

I think weight is misleading, as other have said muscle weighs more than fat, and that fatty may have no check in luggage making them have an extra 30 KG spare. They should really be using waistline. They should work out the optimum waistline for a seat and then put in a max waist line before you need an extra seat. Say anyone with a waist of 50-60 inches MUST buy two tickets.