News and notes from around the interweb:
- Air New Zealand is now weighing passengers departing from Auckland two years ago they had to weigh domestic passengers to validate weight assumptions, and now their regulator is making them check international flights.
This affects how much cargo and fuel a plane will carry, and the U.S. has processes too.
- United’s Devaluation Continues: Saver Award Pricing Jumps To Central America, South America, Middle East, India, And More
- Singapore Airlines adds a third champagne choice to First and Suites class: 2018 Vilmart Grand Cellier D’Or. This is in addition to Taittinger Comtes de Champagne and Krug, which most will still prefer.
- Air Canada will get a new long haul business class for new widebodies and for existing ones when they go in for heavy maintenance.
- It’s being called a ‘smoking gun’ it was confiscated, but of course it posed absolutely no danger to anyone. I guess it was more realistic looking than this and even a photo of a gun gets deemed a security threat.
Yesterday @TSA officers @BostonLogan detected this replica pistol hookah during security screening. This smoking gun never made it onto the aircraft! #travelfail pic.twitter.com/NPUijkRygy
— TSA_NewEngland (@TSA_NewEngland) May 26, 2023
- Proof of life.
An interesting policy at Hong Kong Disneyland. Because they don't do hand stamps anymore (pandemic holdover I guess) in order to reenter you need a picture of yourself in the park that day to prove you were there plus your ticket.
— Shawn Coomer – Miles to Memories (@milestomemories) May 28, 2023
This is far too huge of a profit item for other airlines to ignore.
It’s just a matter of time until scales are at every check-in counter for both baggage and passengers weighing.
https://brothke.medium.com/your-bmi-is-your-ticket-price-the-next-dimension-in-airline-pricing-c0592c755a8f
Obese passengers mean more fuel burn.
So why not charge them more?
Makes sense from the ANZ end of things.
@Ben Rothke: Most congressmen are fat. For this reason alone, individualised weight pricing will never fly
@Esquiar. Not sure if most are.
Either way, this does not require an act of congress to implement.
Didn’t a US airline once offer a promotional that was $1 per pound and everyone got weighed? Maybe it wasn’t in the US, but I seem to remember it.
Cancel your United credit cards. Chase is the only one who can slow the devaluation march and they will only care if they feel it in their bottom line.
@Doug is correct.
Let’s go one further step: bloggers quit pimping shiny bits if Chase plastic ad nauseam ad infinitum
So, is there an incentive to take a dump before being weighed?
So will they weigh people returning from their vacation (after having eaten a lot) or that’s not the point. On a positive, note at least the person will know how much they weigh (jackets included).