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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.
Ah! I didn’t think about that.
Cabin bags have a weight limit too
Cabin bags have a size limit, but I've never seen one weighed.
Depends on how shitty the company is. I've seen it a few times in a couple of decades of travel tbh
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...
I always assumed they were weighed going through the scanner.
In all airports that I've been through (all in Europe), the scanners for people + their carry-on luggage are from the customs agency, so from the government. They won't check or enforce any airline weight limits there. The airline may still ask to check the weight of carry-on luggage at the gate, but I've never seen it as an automated process, only as spot checks.
Hmm, perhaps. Good point, but I've flown enough that I should have seen someone flagged for overweight bags.
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.
They don't want anyone trying to smuggle all those neutron star packages
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 Upvote rescinded!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.
So how about allowing 2 bags instead?
That's still double the work.
Who gets the money for that extra work?
If baggage handlers were paid the extra bag fee people would be queuing round the airport to work there...
If the airport needs more baggage handlers on staff because there's heavy 2 person luggage or just more luggage, they indirectly do get the money, because that's how wages work.
Although I'm sure that the airline will pocket some of the fee, which is obviously not cool, but that's capitalism for you.