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.
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
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.
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.
I mean, airlines are people too, and among the most unionized industries.
They’re both soulless and actually human at the same time.
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.
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.
You must be the person who’s always in front of me at the line for the security scanners!
They totally wont select you during security check either
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?
Fly without a bag. At destination, purchase clothing. At end of week, return clothes for refund. No cost, no cleaning, no hassle!
I did this when I forgot a pair of shoes once. I felt so bad, but also so sly. The poor clerks probably have to deal with foot smell often, but it still just felt icky.
There’s plenty of space on your shoulders and head.
falls asleep
suffocates on a gym sock
Weird kink but okay
Perfect death
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 ?”
Can I get the exact same picture but with an obese fat woman and a sexy male athlete, please? Or would that be inappropriate?
There’s a simple solution to this, did you figure it out?
Steal the plane for yourself, that way you get there faster and with no annoying people and babies.
GTA has taught me well.
I would do that, but I can’t afford the tariffs
Mix everyone up in a big cauldron then shoot the mixture via cannon. Did I get it?
Yes. Modern problems require modern solutions.
You should’ve italicized solutions. That’s good punnin’ right there.
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.
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. 😋
Your imagination isn’t accounting for all the insanity that people loading themselves do. Loading might be faster for the carried folks.
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.
But the human is self loading cargo. The bag is not.
Oh. Just you wait.
I don’t trust airlines with my weight data
“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”
This is a dumb meme, for a few reasons.
What are these reasons?
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.
Checked bags don’t go in the overhead bin.
My carry-ons have always gotten weighed, as well as my checked bags. I’ve not flown in about 15 years, so maybe that’s not as common now?
If was about overhead bins collapsing, they would reject the carry on bag and not just charge extra.
The sign says “max”, so I figured this is referring to weight capacity and not cost.
Max before they charge extra.
The checked bag weight limit is to protect the worker who has to lift 100s of bags per day.
Which is why they are charging more instead of rejecting the bags?
AIUI the bags marked heavy get handled differently like being carried by multiple people.
Of course they are 🙄
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.
Adding to that, people need to load all those suitcases in. The man doesn’t get carried into the plane.
The logic being that there is ~$0.82 USD per KG of fuel cost that has to be accounted for
Its not logical - Weight limits aren’t there for the flight, they’re there so the luggage handlers don’t injure themselves
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.
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.
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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Gotta save weight for those special passengers
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Stupid
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, but, who’s going to lift the passenger!
Passengers, while often stupid, are usually self loading.
Ooh, clever. TIL.
If I pay an extra €50 to go from 19kg to 23kg, does the worker get paid more?
Thought not.
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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.
It’s always just one guy yeeting the bags even when there’s 2 of them they never share a bag lol. The extra money pays for the pink heavy tag they put on there that no one listens to.
Exactly. I can understand a maximum upper limit, but the cost bands below that are there only to maximise profits.
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No problem. I think you’ve illustrated perfectly how easy it is for airlines to dupe their customers with additional fake charges.
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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.
Ah! I didn’t think about that.
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Get a load of this guy, he’s so impressive, always thinking of the right thing, first thing.
Does the luggage handler receive the money then?
Well, if there’s two of them, yes?
For a carry-on? Is that not what they are measuring in the image?
Nope. Why would you weigh a carry-on in the area with a conveyor belt? That is clearly the desk where you hand over the checked baggage.
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.
US vs Worker Rights
Thus, the meme
So how about allowing 2 bags instead?
That’s still double the work.
Baggage handlers are not paid by the bag
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.
Some airlines do allow two bags.
Then what will they upcharge you for?
You want me to do TWO things?!
Man, I’d call my lawyer if dialing the phone wasn’t such a hassle.
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!
Cabin bags have a weight limit too
They don’t want anyone trying to smuggle all those neutron star packages
Probably so they don’t kill anyone when they fall out of an overhead bin.
Cabin bags have a size limit, but I’ve never seen one weighed.
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.
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.
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?
Yes, often around 10 kg. Depends on the airline I guess. Though I never saw them check.
Depends on how shitty the company is. I’ve seen it a few times in a couple of decades of travel tbh
