Weight a minute! AirAsia in Thailand asks passengers on some flights to get weighed before boarding

SINGAPORE: AirAsia in Thailand has joined a growing list of carriers asking passengers to have their weight checked before boarding their flights. This will only be done on selected flights from Oct 16 to 20, and on a voluntary basis only, the carrier said in an Oct 18 Facebook post, which also showed people queuing to weigh themselves and their baggage in an exercise called “Weighing with care”.

This is being done, AirAsia explained, in order to determine the average weight of passengers and is being carried out in cooperation with the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand. Any data collected in the exercise will be kept confidential, AirAsia assured the public in the post, which ended with “Don’t be alarmed. Please cooperate voluntarily with our ground staff.”

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