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Baggage Handlers
How come for health and saftey reason they can only lift a certain weight
a) all airlines give different allowances, same baggage handler though!
b) if you pay extra, you can have heavier cases
a) all airlines give different allowances, same baggage handler though!
b) if you pay extra, you can have heavier cases
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Well , for decades, if not a hundred years, there have been limits on what weight any employee, in any business, can be expected to lift unaided. There are different limit s for men and women. Don't think that there's any special rule for baggage handlers. At Stansted Airport they divert baggage etc above a certain weight , so it goes to a different section. Presumably they have extra staff or special equipment in that section, to comply with the law as it is and long was.
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There's a standard maximum weight of 32Kg which is regarded as the maximum safe load for a single baggage handler to deal with.
Other weight restrictions, imposed by individual airlines, have nothing to do with health and safety. One of the biggest costs in running an airline is paying for the fuel. The captain has to order his fuel for each flight, based upon the weight of the people and baggage on board. (In the early days of aviation passengers were weighed, as well as bags. Nowadays an average weight is assigned for each passenger). Excess baggage means extra fuel, with additional costs for the airline, so it's perfectly reason that customers who take a lot of luggage should pay extra.
Chris
There's a standard maximum weight of 32Kg which is regarded as the maximum safe load for a single baggage handler to deal with.
Other weight restrictions, imposed by individual airlines, have nothing to do with health and safety. One of the biggest costs in running an airline is paying for the fuel. The captain has to order his fuel for each flight, based upon the weight of the people and baggage on board. (In the early days of aviation passengers were weighed, as well as bags. Nowadays an average weight is assigned for each passenger). Excess baggage means extra fuel, with additional costs for the airline, so it's perfectly reason that customers who take a lot of luggage should pay extra.
Chris
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