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Not too sure what an 'ethnic' flight is, Leder, but in Astraeus we had sets of pax weights for different flights eg African, where rolled up carpets etc (but no chicken) seemed to appear as 'hand baggage' with monotonous regularity.
I remember a particular Hadj flight from Jeddah to Tehran in a 727-200 that resulted in much more runway being used and the fuel burn being off a bit.
Thanks to the regional practice of "bakhshish" we had a few more personal items loaded and carried onboard than planned.
