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Old Mar 2, 2006 | 3:50 pm
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B747-437B
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Originally Posted by daniellam
I think the only purpose is to identify the gender of the passenger so that appropriate amenity kits could be loaded in F/J?
Weight and balance standard assumptions are different for male and female passengers.

99.9% of the time this is not an issue, but there have been times when the head count by gender manages to keep one more pax from being offloaded due to payload issues.
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