Why the hell shouldn’t American airlines do anything to avoid wasting fuel? The fewer carbon emissions, the better, period. For the planet, for the species, for everyone. I’d be happy to see scales in airports with the numbers kept confidential, and I’m nearly the heaviest I’ve ever been in my life. I have only my…

A lot of this is about airlines trying to save money on fuel costs, tbh. If commercial airliners in America could do this without being accused of fat-shaming or something they would do it solely because it would allow them to better calculate and predict fuel usage and costs, thereby saving money. Freight airlines…

But... it sounds very different than that. First, these passengers are not being weighed in order to determine their health. Second, the others flying with you aren’t your “peers” necessarily. Finally, the results are supposedly confidential. So, unless simply being on a scale in public is humiliating (and maybe it…