coming back from Istanbul on BA677 on 14th dec, was a 767 aircraft butonly 44 pax on the flight. what i thought was strange as they opened all the seats in the rear and had to leave the forward section empty for the weight balance on take-off, even for an ex baggage handler this confused me thinking they put all the weight at the back, wouldnt that unbalance it? then i guessed they did it because they put all the cargo in the forward hold? would that make sense? the crew were fantastic, didnt use the tannoy to tell about our seating cause we were all at the back, very nice and entertaining crew. The sccm told us we were free to move after take off, but i stayed where i was, had the nice exit seat behind wing. it was nice relaxing flight and basically had 1 person per row almost.
so am i right in thinking having the pax at rear on take off because the cargo is in the front hold?