One other problem with Malta was that the people were all a bit chunky and heavy and they all had several very heavy cabin bags each...With a full load and with the fixed load sheet weight for each passenger, I'm sure that the actual take-off weight was often quite a bit more than the load sheet take-off weight. The only way to have been sure was to get them and their cabin bags all off and weighed on a scale...This would have caused chaos!!
