• InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    OSHA.

    The throwers have a union to stop them from killing themselves, which means we don’t give them 40kg things to break their backs regularly and anything over 22kgs they buddy lift or get a hoist or something.

    Thought it was just airlines being airlines too, but this makes complete sense, don’t be dicks about other people’s health.

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      22 days ago

      i was in favor of total weight based pricing, but this changed my mind.

      may the backs of the people kicking around my luggage be in perfect health

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        22 days ago

        Same, went from ‘you greedy mother-fuckers’ to ‘I am right with you fam’.

        Amazed they don’t explain it more, it makes them actually seem human for once.

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          22 days ago

          because airlines do not actually care about their workers and just comply with the regulations half assedly. they cannot fathom compassion for human resources or assume milking it would backfire.

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            22 days ago

            I mean, airlines are people too, and among the most unionized industries.

            They’re both soulless and actually human at the same time.

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    22 days ago

    No matter what size you are, you can wear a jacket with as many pockets as you want. Travel cheaper by looking like an vaudeville ex-army doomsday prepper with all your underwear stuffed into pockets of oversized cargo pants, three layers of socks and an entire towel as a toga shirt over your other shirts.

    Pro-tip: If you have a greasy paper bag they’ll think it’s food and won’t charge you for a carry-on.

    • owatnext@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      I’m always cold when flying, so I just layer up. Jeans, sweatpants, short sleeve, long sleeve, sweater, jacket, hat. Then, I put various items in my various pockets. Phone, earbuds, snack bars, bar of soap, small articles of clothing, maybe a tshirt in my jacket pocket, a shoe in each sweatpants pocket. The rest goes in my carry on, no luggage fees.

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        22 days ago

        You must be the person who’s always in front of me at the line for the security scanners!

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      22 days ago

      Dude, I barely fit in the seats now with my phone in my pocket and you want me to carry a weeks worth of clothing and travel sized toiletries on my person?

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      22 days ago

      I did that once with camera gear. I stuffed lenses in all my pockets because my carry on bag was too heavy. “There, 5 kg off, happy ?”

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    22 days ago

    Can I get the exact same picture but with an obese fat woman and a sexy male athlete, please? Or would that be inappropriate?

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    22 days ago

    Well, no employee is going to be expected to physically lift me and every other passenger at any point, but they will have to lift all of our checked baggage, so it feels like my weight matters less than my luggage’s weight.

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      22 days ago

      I don’t want to “well actually” but I’m disabled and need to be pushed in my chair through the airport and to + down the gate corridor. Every time I arrive at the plane door, someone greets me from the plane and asks “do you need help (boarding the plane)”. Luckily I can hobble with my cane for short distances, so I don’t need to be carried like I’m going to the bedroom in a romcom, but they do have staff that can aid with that…

      Now I’m imagining a plane full of disabled people all being carried. Boarding time, 11a, departure, 3p. 😋

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        21 days ago

        Your imagination isn’t accounting for all the insanity that people loading themselves do. Loading might be faster for the carried folks.

      • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        That’s fair. Now I wonder how liability works with that since they could hurt themselves and you in the process. And surely they are people that just cannot be lifted by one person.

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      22 days ago

      “One second, I just need to update some details before I can give you your boarding pass…”

      types into the terminal ‘customer wouldn’t let me weigh them, probably a fat fuck, recommend full body search at security checkpoint for contraband meals and soda’

      “Here you go, sorry about the delay, have a lovely day”

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    22 days ago

    Y’all, the overhead bins and the seats have different weight ratings. If has nothing to do with the overall weight of the plane, they just don’t want the bins to come crashing down on your head mid-flight.

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    22 days ago

    How is that logical that the man should pay extra cause he’s bigger/taller but small people should get extra luggage bonus?

    Not even taking into account that this very short lady will be far more comfortable during the flight than the gentleman.

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      22 days ago

      Adding to that, people need to load all those suitcases in. The man doesn’t get carried into the plane.

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      The logic being that there is ~$0.82 USD per KG of fuel cost that has to be accounted for

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      Its not logical - Weight limits aren’t there for the flight, they’re there so the luggage handlers don’t injure themselves

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        Weight limits are critical for the flight. An overweight plane can fail to take off. The more weight in passengers a plane carries, the more weight in fuel they need to add. This extra fuel weight also requires more fuel to carry it. And so on and so on.

        There’s a tipping point with weight of passengers and cargo combined with flight duration where the plane becomes uneconomical to fly. Planes have crashed on takeoff because they were overweight but the weight was miscalculated. Temperature and weather also play a role.

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        22 days ago

        Of course… What airline companies are most concerned about is the well being of their luggage handlers.

        Even if they claim that this is one of the reasons, it’s a by product of cost management.

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          It’s because of safety standards. 50 pounds isn’t a set limit, but you can see how any decent lawyer can take that NIOSH model used and get a crapton of money from a company if an employee does get hurt lifting more, so conservative companies that don’t want to have to pay out will set that limit themselves.

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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.