Airlines weight passenger

Airline passengers are used to weighing their luggage, but now travellers on South Korea's flag carriers could be weighed themselves before boarding their flights.

Korean Air, the country's largest airline, has become the latest company to announce that it will be measuring the average weight of passengers and their carry-on items 'for flight safety'.

Similar measures came into place in New Zealand in June, when more than 10,000 passengers flying with Air New Zealand were expected to weigh themselves pre-flight.