Originally Posted by
Snakecharma
It will never happen and really does it need to?
How many aeroplanes are plunging to their destruction because some bloke had too many sausage rolls yesterday?
We have a lot of problems in the airline industry - this ain't one of them....
It's not that it's a safety issue. But airlines may well be wasting a lot of money, either by leaving freight behind or by carrying more fuel than they really need, because they don't really know what the total pax load is in kg.
Some executive somewhere in the industry is going to make or break their career trying to implement this and make it mainstream in our lifetimes.