If you're travelling across the ditch any time soon, you may be asked to step on the scales. Air New Zealand will weigh more than 10,000 travellers with their hand luggage before they board international flights from Auckland Airport. 9News MORE:
national airline will be asking passengers if they would be open to being weighed with their hand luggage before they board the plane over the coming weeks.
Air New Zealand customers will be asked to step on a set of scales for the airline to log their weight before they board.Air New Zealand will be asking to weigh its passengers ahead of boarding over the coming weeks. Air New Zealand load control specialist Alastair James told local current affairs program Seven Sharp that the data was used to calculate the average weight of a load of passengers.At least 10,000 people need to take part over the next five weeks for the survey to be effective.
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