Plane Answers: Whistling airplanes and heavy passengers that cost airlines more in fuel?

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6-03-2009 @ 7:42PM

Jim said...

Flying on smaller aircraft you will be weighed. I have flown a bit around the Solomon Islands on the ever reliable and tough Twin Otter and you are weighed together with your bags.
Perhaps it will become cost effective for airlines to have some sort of discrete weight check of passengers so a more accurate figure can be calculated.

6-03-2009 @ 8:57PM

Kent Wien said...

Thanks Jim,

Ironically, I spent many hours flying the Twin Otter in Alaska:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BL_jT5y-uE

And yes, I probably should have mentioned that we weighed (or at least asked the weights of) our passengers.

And, as Ted mentioned, we did that because it is a bit more critical on the smaller aircraft.

You guys always keep me honest!

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