Standard Weights for Baggage
Looking over a loadsheet the other day, I noticed that I was carrying 130 bags on an international flight.
Legally enough they were loaded as 13 kilos standard weight. However, my airline has a 20kg baggage allowance?? When using my staff travel once, I had to pay an excess baggage charge however this was not reflected on the load sheet.
I don't see people traveling with much less than 20 kg but often see them travelling with more! Assume that everyone uses the company allowance of 20kg, 7kg over standard. At 130 bags that is 910 kg extra when we are operating within 100 - 200kg of MTOW.
We are also told that 3-4% of any extra fuel we carry is burned off per hour just to carry it. Are we therefore being short changed with our fuel figures?
It's a minor point but I just don't understand why this difference exists between the baggage allowance amount and the loadsheet standard weights??
For the record, I don't think the 93 and 75 kilos are still relevant and I'm sometimes amazed that we get airborne at all but at least we don't have a weight limit or indeed weigh the pax at check in.
any views??
FPS