NEW DELHI: The subsequent time you fly Finnair out of Helsinki, the airline might request you to face on a weighing scale along with your carry-on (hand) baggage.
The European carrier, which has six and two flights a week to Delhi and Goa respectively, as its current India operations, has started amassing information at Helsinki airport "on passenger and carry-on luggage weights to update data that is used for aircraft load calculations". Aircraft weight is likely one of the key factors used to correctly resolve the quantity of fuelling required for various flights.
Finnair's India GM Desmond Chacko told TOI the weighing is "purely voluntary and anonymous", and only the buyer carrier agent sees the weighing end result. Citing the similar reason why, he couldn't verify whether or not India-bound passengers had been additionally being weighed.
"Our intention is to gather enough data from our own network and own customers to verify that we have quality data in use for our calculations. This is why we have now, during Tuesday and Wednesday, asked around 180 customers to volunteer to be weighed with their carry-on luggage at Helsinki Airport, and it was great to see that so many people wanted to be a part of this study," Chacko stated.
The airline expects to weigh about 2,000 flyers until subsequent spring to get statistically correct information from its network. It will likely be accomplished on flights to different routes and also from different seasons as a result of in iciness other folks have heavy coats, whilst in summer they wear lighter clothes.
Finnair's goal for the weight find out about is to resolve whether or not it has correct information on passenger same old weights used for figuring out airplane performance and loading calculations.
The European carrier, which has six and two flights a week to Delhi and Goa respectively, as its current India operations, has started amassing information at Helsinki airport "on passenger and carry-on luggage weights to update data that is used for aircraft load calculations". Aircraft weight is likely one of the key factors used to correctly resolve the quantity of fuelling required for various flights.
Finnair's India GM Desmond Chacko told TOI the weighing is "purely voluntary and anonymous", and only the buyer carrier agent sees the weighing end result. Citing the similar reason why, he couldn't verify whether or not India-bound passengers had been additionally being weighed.
"Our intention is to gather enough data from our own network and own customers to verify that we have quality data in use for our calculations. This is why we have now, during Tuesday and Wednesday, asked around 180 customers to volunteer to be weighed with their carry-on luggage at Helsinki Airport, and it was great to see that so many people wanted to be a part of this study," Chacko stated.
The airline expects to weigh about 2,000 flyers until subsequent spring to get statistically correct information from its network. It will likely be accomplished on flights to different routes and also from different seasons as a result of in iciness other folks have heavy coats, whilst in summer they wear lighter clothes.
Finnair's goal for the weight find out about is to resolve whether or not it has correct information on passenger same old weights used for figuring out airplane performance and loading calculations.
Finnair weighs Indian flyers, carry-on baggage at Helsinki
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