Published on : Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Knowing the precise weight of the people on board has long been recognized as a benefit to airlines. However, passenger resistance and the logistics of weighing hundreds of people has made it impossible to implement. Nick Brasier, has come up with a plan to weigh passengers discreetly.
More airports and airlines are opting for self-service bag drops, where the passenger uses a screen-based system to weigh their baggage on scales. People need not stand on scales. Airports can fit ‘pressure pads’ in the bag-drop area in front of each screen. After the bag has been checked in, the system can ask, ‘Are you standing on the pressure pad?’ If the passenger taps ‘Yes’, then the weight can be recorded and passed confidentially to the airline.
According to Fuel Matrix, this would enable the aircraft dispatcher to calculate the exact ‘zero fuel weight’ of the aircraft, and then to load the ideal amount of fuel. This would reduce the cost to the airline of the flight and, more importantly, the associated carbon emissions.
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