Airline to Begin Weighing Passengers for ‘Flight Safety’

[iammalcolmx]

If they are small planes I don't care. Weight and balance is very important.

[elleblue]

If this catches on I'm never flying again. Omg.

[iammalcolmx]

I will never fly on a plane small enough to weigh people. #realtalk

[Velar Fricative]

I was thinking this was either satire or couldn't possibly be happening in the US.

I was right - it's in U-beki-beki-beki-stan (pours one out for Herman Cain).

[aurora]

I've been weighed for flights on small planes before. I don't love it, but I'd rather be weighed than have the plane crash.

[elleblue]

Aug 13, 2015 17:19:48 GMT -5 aurora said:

I've been weighed for flights on small planes before. I don't love it, but I'd rather be weighed than have the plane crash.

Small planes are a different story. I got the impression this was for larger flights but perhaps I'm wrong. 

[ESF]

If the only thing standing in between life and a watery grave is the guy in A15's passion for Old Country Buffet, I will take the train, thank you very much.

[aurora]

Aug 13, 2015 17:21:14 GMT -5 elleblue said:

Aug 13, 2015 17:19:48 GMT -5 aurora said:

I've been weighed for flights on small planes before. I don't love it, but I'd rather be weighed than have the plane crash.

Small planes are a different story. I got the impression this was for larger flights but perhaps I'm wrong. 

Maybe; I'm too lazy to look beyond the OP!

[Velar Fricative]

If Uzbekistan Airlines is their national airline, it has to include more than tiny planes. I doubt they're using four-seater planes on the Tashkent-Moscow route.

But yeah, I agree about tiny planes. IIRC, isn't weight why Aaliyah's small plane crashed?

ETA: And who woulda thunk it? Just saw they fly to JFK too. That definitely has to include a big airplane.

[sushi]

Aug 13, 2015 17:10:18 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

If they are small planes I don't care. Weight and balance is very important.

Yep. Even for big military planes (like 737s and c130s) I've been weighed. I've done it both with and without bags. They plan the fuel practically to the drop as a cost savings measure.

Ironically I haven't been weighed for the little 6-10 pax planes I've regularly taken, but they usually assume I'm the lightest and stick me all the way in the back. Unless there's a kid. Then I get to sit next to them while a parent sits farther forward.

I believe Samoa air has been doing this for years.

[wise_rita]

Air Crash Investigation (I believe called Mayday! in the USA) is a sick/guilty pleasure of mine.

There was a little regional plane that went down, I think in New York state, primarily because the estimated weight calculation of each passenger was so outdated and wrong. This one sticks out in my memory because the co-pilot was a 23 year old female, which was close to my age when I saw that episode.

[Cicero]

Aug 13, 2015 18:25:04 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

Air Crash Investigation (I believe called Mayday! in the USA) is a sick/guilty pleasure of mine.

There was a little regional plane that went down, I think in New York state, primarily because the estimated weight calculation of each passenger was so outdated and wrong. This one sticks out in my memory because the co-pilot was a 23 year old female, which was close to my age when I saw that episode.

It's Air Crash Investigation here too.

[sushi]

Aug 13, 2015 17:32:55 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

But yeah, I agree about tiny planes. IIRC, isn't weight why Aaliyah's small plane crashed?

Her plane crashed at the airport where I fly in to visit family, the place where I have 100% of my small plane experience (incl on an airline nicknamed roach coach lol).

Aaliyah's plane crashed on takeoff (the debris was there for years) due to weight and placement. Airport officials had begged them to leave stuff behind, but they refused.

ETA They estimated that after plane and cargo weight, each person would have to weigh less than #90 to not go above the max.

[zoegirltx]

Aug 13, 2015 17:19:48 GMT -5 aurora said:

I've been weighed for flights on small planes before. I don't love it, but I'd rather be weighed than have the plane crash.

yea, I think I have too...for sure for helicopter rides.

Or at least asked my weight so they can fill out forms & put something down.

[5thofjuly]

This happened to us on a puddle jumper in a Hawaii. They didn't deny anyone a seat on the flight. They just assigned our seats based on our weight.

[ttt]

As if I didn't already have enough reason to avoid Uzbekistan Airlines.

[LoveTrains]

I was on a small plane once - but a commercial flight, a regional jet type craft - where they asked for volunteers to get off be we were overweight.

We were all buckled in at our seats at the gate. H and I volunteered, we got vouchers for a free flight and got a flight a few hours later.