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They weigh my carry on and complain when it's 1kg over, yet some people weighing twice as much as me get on the plane. Makes no sense.
That weight limit is how much an employee can lift by themselves in America(50 pounds). If it's over they have to team lift.
Sure, for checked luggage. But why does carry on luggage have to be 7kg?
Sometimes the passenger can't lift it for whatever reason, in which case the flight attendants would have to do it.
Then they should put a barbell with weights and you are allowed to bring as many kgs as you can lift with the barbell.
So it's doesn't fall out and crush you in the head during turbulence. It's held up there by a shitty little latch.
Yeah, that's why I watch the bag handlers sling my bags with heavy tags on to the conveyor belt with one arm...
Your fellow passenger will be in a seat, not the overhead baggage compartment.
The fellow passenger will be spread across two seats.
There isn't a weight limit for the overhead compartment on any airline I've flown.
There is you just never hit it.
you sure about that? if they enforce bag weight they won't need to put max weight stickers in the actual plane. It's not like anyone would humor them if there were anyways..
Yeah but I can as easily put 8kg overhead as I can 7kg. The staff won't have to do it.
Limiting the carry on weight I can understand. The overhead compartment can only hold a certain amount of weight. So a limit has to exist.
And there is the danger of luggage falling on people during an emergency or even just when opening the compartment. And while 7kg hurts, more weight hurts more and even will get dangerous.
If they put the limit at 8kg you would make the same argument about 9.
I'm not saying they're not rent seeking, I trust them as far as I could throw them, but this is a false comparison. The weight limit of the overhead compartment and the total passenger weight of the plane are two completely different things.