Airlines to charge by Weight???

[wasabi]

Emotive language is what you are resorting too by labeling my explanation because you have none yourself.

To judge every wheelchair as fat because of necessary added weight they cant reduce

No. You've simply set up a straw man. Then repeat your attack on it, even though it is meaningless as you are the one who made it in the first place.

[TooNice]

It's not just the check-in luggage that is subject to weight restriction. Carry on are subject to weight limit too on most, if not all airlines. Though rarely, if ever enforced, it is there and one would have little room to argue if airliners decide to enforce it. So the perceived unfairness is there regardless of the airline's bottom line since the airline treats it as something relevant (to either charge for it, or provide as discretionary favour, or frequent mileage benefit). If loading luggage on board is such an expensive endeavour, yet the total weight relatively negligible, then at the very least make it so that one can hand carry any amount of weight (one can comfortably hand carry) within the size constraint. Not at discretion (the present norm), but by policy.

[melon]

No. You've simply set up a straw man. Then repeat your attack on it, even though it is meaningless as you are the one who made it in the first place.

The only thing meaningless are these projections of yourself, I never setup anything other than presenting the evidence as fact , you on the other hand have done nothing but accused me of doing things to influence people while forgetting most people are free too choose ( including you ) whatever they want to believe themselves.

[wasabi]

The only thing meaningless are these projections of yourself.

And..... ignore list.

[melon]

And..... ignore list.

Im touched .

Cya

[TheAnimus]

It's not just the check-in luggage that is subject to weight restriction. Carry on are subject to weight limit too on most, if not all airlines. Though rarely, if ever enforced, it is there and one would have little room to argue if airliners decide to enforce it. So the perceived unfairness is there regardless of the airline's bottom line since the airline treats it as something relevant (to either charge for it, or provide as discretionary favour, or frequent mileage benefit). If loading luggage on board is such an expensive endeavour, yet the total weight relatively negligible, then at the very least make it so that one can hand carry any amount of weight (one can comfortably hand carry) within the size constraint. Not at discretion (the present norm), but by policy.

Ah but the problem with carry on, is that after it's carried on, it has to be stowed, the overhead bins have piratical limits, these are very important because they can burst open, turbulence, defective lock etc.

You have to make sure that the objects aren't so heavy they would create serious issues in an emergency (ie couldn't be moved by someone average) or so heavy they will damage the bin locking mechanism. Most airlines don't charge that much if you tell them upfront about the luggage, and how many people here have actually been fined for excess luggage?

The thing is it doesn't matter so long as everyone is relatively close the norm, that is why most don't care about the odd 1 or 2kg.

However if EVERYONE suddenly took on an extra 20kg, that could then matter a great deal, this is why they normally limit it. In the same way an airline can happily let 1 or 2% of a flight be disabled persons, without effecting the safety or their bottom line, they can let 10% fly with excess baggage without any real issue.

This isn't too say all airlines are like this. I think that WizzAir in particular use the fines for terrible profit, they limit the hold bag weight just so you buy more hold bags (a nuclear family can't share just 2 or 3).

But most of the airlines are really decent about it. It just exists to stop everyone doing it as this might make the plane be outside of limits. That is why excess baggage fees are in effect a kind of fine, to try and persuade you not to just turn up. One reason I often don't fly WizzAir or Easyjet or Ryainair is that when you add in the cost of some baggage, transit costs to the further away airport, they aren't cheaper.