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Now if, say, 100 passengers on a flight use that allowance that would add 4.6 tonnes, quite a lot, even if they could manage to heave it into the cabin in the first place.
It's unlikely, of course, to put it mildly, that anything like that would or even could happen.
Exactly.
You would have to try fairly hard to cram 23 kg into a bag sized for the overhead bin, let alone one that will fit under your seat (unless you're a bullion dealer
). So it's a pretty safe assumption on the part of BA that only a small proportion of pax will fall into that category.
In other words it's basically marketing, to differentiate the airline from LCCs.