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Khaylain t1_iuhf36o wrote

Reply to comment by Ryimax in Airlines charge you extra per kilo of luggage but not extra per kilo of human. by LouSayners

On amusement rides they can reject you because of weight because they have an exception to anti-discrimination laws for reasonable grounds. Those reasonable grounds are human safety.

This link shows that airlines also can reject you for being overweight if it will have effects on the balance of the plane or making the load of the plane outside accepted limits. That's improbable on most commercial flights, however, as a single person has little effect on a large plane.

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dyandela t1_iuhsc9f wrote

I think you’re right, in general, about the effect of one person’s weight, but I was on a weirdly empty cross Atlantic flight and they reassigned everyone’s seats and told us we couldn’t move until after takeoff because they needed the plane to be balanced.

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Khaylain t1_iuhsn80 wrote

Well, that's the difference between an empty flight and a mostly full flight. The more people the less difference one person makes. The less people, the more difference one person makes.

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dyandela t1_iuht6ys wrote

Absolutely. Wasn’t trying to disagree, just thought I’d share my weird experience where it did matter.

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