Originally Posted by
Thai-Kiwi
A cynic might say Air NZ is trying to capture 'lost' ancillary revenue - bags being over weight.... perhaps too many folks dropping bags over 23kg? or worse, over 32kg which needs 2 staff to lift.
I think you're partially correct - but I was also told a year or so ago one of the reasons for moving to this was to get more accurate weight data for aircraft loading. I'd just assumed bags were weighted behind the scenes automatically but I don't think that is the case at all airports and that some of this is still manual.