Qantas clowns around with luggage

[Michael Morrison]

I know Pac Blue base their average on 75kg.... (except for TBU/APW which are 90kg).

Now if DJ can fly SYD-APW which is about 5.5/6.5hrs depending on direction with 150 pax (limited due to weight) at an average of 90kg... why can't QF fly 152 pax SYD-DRW which is less??

Seems like they did take freight ahead of pax luggage

[Owen H]

Michael, you've been given some pretty reasonable answers as to why, on THIS occasion, they MAY have not been able to do so.

There are HUNDREDS of reasons that this could occur. Some perfectly legitimate, some maybe by clerical error.

C'est la vie.

That'll do me for this thread.

[Adam G]

Michael - the weights you quoted aren't accurate for PB.

[NickN]

There are HGW versions of the 738...... was this one of them?

[Owen H]

Does it matter?

[Michael Mak]

Originally Posted by Adam G

Michael - the weights you quoted aren't accurate for PB.

What's the accurate figure?

[NickN]

Does it matter?

It does if it was a HGW model and the weights calculated were only for a MGW model. Would leave even more surplus payload.

[Owen H]

The HGW versions I believe have the same MZFW and MLW... only the MTOW changes... and in this situation MTOW is not limiting.

I am willing to be proved wrong (about the weights) as I don't fly the 737.

[Marty H]

Originally Posted by Michael Morrison

So 152 pax x 75kg would be 11.5T so they'd of had roughly 5.5T more than you say to play with.... so that would be roughly 36kg of luggage per pax???

Pax baggage (someone can correct me if Im wrong) is averaged out at 15kg per bag so SYD-DRW would be at least one bag per pax 152 x 15 = 2280kgs.

[Marty H]

Originally Posted by Michael Morrison

Seems like they did take freight ahead of pax luggage

Courier bill would have been HUGE