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[mantahatch]

Personally I think all flight cost/tickets should be based on your weight plus luggage. That way you for the fuel you use, and the airline know in advance how much you weigh and it would work out cheaper for me 

I like that idea. me 18 stone, wife 6 stone. So average of 12 stone each, oh I feel lighter just thinking about it 

[pscocoa]

I am 22 stone, my wife is 10 stone but she takes about 12 stone in luggage - how does that work then

[Entwood]

Varche .. picking up on a couple of points ..

Hand baggage is assumed to be part of "your" weight .. and is done so statistically, so is not weighed unless the check-in staff are suspicious.

Aircraft performance calculations have many built in safety margins, but at the end of the day you have to "follow the lines" on the fairly complex graphs (again in my day ... probably done on a laptop now) and ensure that you are on the right side of the line at the end of the process. If you are not you have to change something and do the process again. The easiest thing to change is the number of persons on board .. ie  .. throw off a few folks.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Varche .. picking up on a couple of points ..

Hand baggage is assumed to be part of "your" weight .. and is done so statistically, so is not weighed unless the check-in staff are suspicious.

Aircraft performance calculations have many built in safety margins, but at the end of the day you have to "follow the lines" on the fairly complex graphs (again in my day ... probably done on a laptop now) and ensure that you are on the right side of the line at the end of the process. If you are not you have to change something and do the process again. The easiest thing to change is the number of persons on board .. ie  .. throw off a few folks.

I took a truck's starter motor to Kenya once in my hand luggage... Oooops!!!   

[cem_devecioglu]

me 105 kgs before I lost weight.. wife negligible    but the bags   we generally go somewhere else with tons of baggage..
 
my wife can pack so successfully that last time a normal handbag was around 50 kgs  
 
last time I carry them I asked : what do you put inside ? corpse ?
she replied : only dress !   
me: how ?

[symes]

Now you know why Easyjet no in USA

[JamesV6CDX]

Don't talk to me about aborted take-offs. I was on a KLM flight taking off from schiphol once which aborted once it had gained significant momentum on the runway.. because the right hand undercarriage wheel locked up! Scared the whatsits out me!
This was on a Fokker70, smallish jet.

Fair play to KLM though - off this aircraft, on a bus, straight onto another one - no going back into the terminal. Bags transferred, pilot cracked some sort of joke and in no time, belting down the runway for take 2!

[Broomies Mate]

Don't talk to me about aborted take-offs. I was on a KLM flight taking off from schiphol once which aborted once it had gained significant momentum on the runway.. because the right hand undercarriage wheel locked up! Scared the whatsits out me!
This was on a Fokker70, smallish jet.

Fair play to KLM though - off this aircraft, on a bus, straight onto another one - no going back into the terminal. Bags transferred, pilot cracked some sort of joke and in no time, belting down the runway for take 2!

Knowing them Amsterdam-ians, they probably filled the bus with some herbal 'schmoke' and took you straight back to the same Aircraft!