To book your next travel, all the reservation platform needs in input to calculate price is your point-to-point flight legs and the dates of travel. In output, I predict, the airline of tomorrow will give you the price per kilo. You will pay a standard fair still, but a balance will be returned to you after weigh-in at check-in or boarding.
Bangkok Airways proudly presents the first step in its new advanced pricing software:
https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/transport/weighing-passengers-to-become-standard-for-bangkok-airways
The take-off weight of a passenger plane is made up of a third plane, a third fuel (it's kept in the wings), a third passengers with their cabin and hold baggage. The only element with a significant one sigma deviation is passenger weight. Now, they are - ostensibly at least - trying to deal with it.
They say they will weigh you at boarding, but I'd imagine they will weigh you at the same time as you check-in in order that they can accurately calculate how much fuel to load.
Of course the obvious next step once check-in weight is normalised is to propose commodity pricing by the kilo.
At first it will be voluntary and of course only the thins and children will join in the fun weighing competition, but once it becomes standard and the memes start appearing, it can be made mandatory, same same your passport number was for privacy.
So this is gut-bucket commodity pricing for real. Why not add this new number to your social credit score for better targeted marketing of other products and services, you only need to share the data for even friendlier NHS health control and advanced govt help.
You really are just a number.
...or weighed
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