Passengers travelling on South Korea’s largest airline within the coming weeks might discover themselves getting weighed on the airport.
Korean Air confirmed on its website that it will be “measuring the average weight of passengers along with their carry-on items for flight safety”.
It follows the same transfer introduced by Air New Zealand in June.
Travellers flying from two of South Korea’s busiest airports, each within the capital Seoul, will likely be requested to step on the scales. Passengers on home routes from Gimpo Airport could also be weighed from 28 August to 6 September, whereas the identical is true for passengers departing from Incheon International Airport from 8-19 September.
The airline has confirmed that if passengers would like not to share their weight they can choose out by letting airport employees know.
“Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation (MOLIT) has advised all Korean flag carriers to weigh passengers with their carry-on baggage to update its ‘Aircraft Weight and Balance Management Standards’,” a spokesperson advised The Independent.
“This is crucial for safety of flight operations, and Korean Air complies with this mandate and remains committed to safety, its number one priority.”
The course of is used to assist decide the load distribution on plane, and calculations want to happen each 5 years.
Throughout June, greater than 10,000 passengers flying with Air New Zealand have been anticipated to be weighed before they boarded their flight.
It was a part of an “essential” initiative to guarantee “the safe and efficient operation of the aircraft”, in accordance to Air New Zealand, and was additionally a requirement from the nation’s Civil Aviation Authority.
As The Independent has reported beforehand, weighing each passenger before a flight can improve security and minimize the environmental hurt brought on by every flight; at present, airways use “assumed mass”, estimating the whole weight of the passengers through the use of set figures.
