It's not about how much weight the plane carries so much as flight attendants doing overhead lifting and the risk of one falling out of the overhead locker. Source, I'm on the internet and you read it
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Actually it's about charging people extra as often as you can.
It’s both, weight starts to become a bigger deal when you factor in that you have to keep it in the air for thousands of km. If airlines could charge people by weight they would in a heartbeat
Judging by the comments, this is the perfect shitpost. Thank you for the smiles.
Downvoted not because of AI but because you didn't even bother to remove the piss filter.
It's for the safety of the people handling the luggage, not for the weight of the plane
Then how do you explain the 8kg weight limit for carry on? Who is endagered by 9kg luggage? And it's not even handled by the staff.
The overhead compartments have a weight limit because they must be designed to keep the stuff in there during an emergency.
No weight limit under the seat, though.
There is a bar or some device that is there to prevent your stuff from sliding forwards. I've not been crawling on the airplane floors enough to see any weight rating on it but I would bet money on it being crash tested and rated according to whatever the overhead compartments are.
honestly I think they also just want an excuse to charge you extra, but the official reason is also safety, to prevent injury if a bag falls out of the overhead compartment during turbulence.
I got very lucky flying this year, always ended up next to an empty seat or even an entire empty row. Until the last flight. Middle seat between two very American sized women who were partially spilling over into my seat.
Thank god it was just a 30 mins flight.
eat your luggage
This actually makes a lot of sense. It shouldn't be about fat shaming, but you cant ignore reality and you should make rules based on it. People with normal weight shouldn't be punished.
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