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I don't know why this keeps getting posted everywhere. Workers have a lift limit the extra cost is for the extra person to handle the bag.
I'd also suspect humans on a plane will follow a normal distribution in terms of weight. The aircraft weight/loading is done on an average sized person (which used to be 75kg if I remember correctly). Conversely every motherfucker will load their luggage with as much shit as possible if it's not limited.
Good point. Upvote rescinded!
If I pay an extra €50 to go from 19kg to 23kg, does the worker get paid more?
Thought not.
No they pay 2 workers
So all suitcases between 19 and 23kg are loaded by 2 people at a time?
Bullshit. It's a fake cost and everyone knows it.
Ok, I didn't realize I was talking to an operations manager for an airline. I was just clarifying the point made above.
No problem. I think you've illustrated perfectly how easy it is for airlines to dupe their customers with additional fake charges.
No, I demonstrated reading other comments and synthesizing their text into an easier form for those without reading skills. I am not arguing remotely the same point as you are.
The result of your summary was the erroneous conclusion that the extra cost was for more manpower, demonstrating why the airlines are able to get away with making spurious extra costs.
Go the fuck away and don't talk to me, creeper troll
Cabin bags have a weight limit too
Cabin bags have a size limit, but I've never seen one weighed.
Yes, often around 10 kg. Depends on the airline I guess. Though I never saw them check.
Apparently a standard carry on is about 45 cm³, or 1.60 ft³. If you fill it with water, that would weigh about 45kg/100 lb.
That would be a lot of 100ml containers...
Carrion can be well over 1000kg and 5m... Depending om what type of animal we're talking about.
Like an elephant?
Yeah, I like elephants
With barbecue sauce?
I always assumed they were weighed going through the scanner.
The scanner's part of security, which is potentially shared between multiple airlines with multiple cabin bag weight limits, so it wouldn't make sense as the place to weigh things. It only works if it's done somewhere airline-specific, like check-in or boarding.
Hmm, perhaps. Good point, but I've flown enough that I should have seen someone flagged for overweight bags.
Depends on how shitty the company is. I've seen it a few times in a couple of decades of travel tbh
Probably so they don't kill anyone when they fall out of an overhead bin.
They don't want anyone trying to smuggle all those neutron star packages
For a carry-on? Is that not what they are measuring in the image?
No, carry on is usally max 8 kg.
Thankfully some airlines just go with the "you need to be able to lift it into the overhead bin" approach source airline.