Now there's something I'd pay money to see -- 37,500 lbs of bags on a 757 heading to GYE...
I'm an arrogant type who sits in their cubicle, but rather than criticize, I get to measure stuff, including things like the average and peak number of bags on a 757 headed to GYE out of MIA.
The max bags on a GYE trip year to date was just over 23K#, so while 37K# would be quite a feat, it would also require one heck of a payload restriction to accommodate that much weight in the belly...
Assuming 1.1 bag per pax into GYE, the average bag weight is somewhere around 60lbs, and 1.1 bag/pax is probably on the low side...
But I digress...
Isn't staffing being set up with four clerks and a working CC? As much time as I've spent watching onload/offload, this doesn't seem as impossible as you make it out to be. Some cities already do this.
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First, you are right about the weights in the aircraft but we sometimes have 3 to 5 carts that are left behind, so the poor soul in the bagroom has to load all these bags in a cart. The bags are big and heavy and the airplanes are almost always cubed out. But I have also worked the inbound from GYE and I can tell you we get a lot of heavy freight. The back end was full of freight and they weighed 150 lbs. a piece (I read the freight tags). The front had bags. Where I am at now, the 4 includes a crew chief ( 3 clerks and 1 working crew chief). And sometimes, because of sick calls or injuries, we work with a crew chief and 2, until someone can be held on OT.
I was trying to illustrate to oneflyer that, even though we might work less flights, the amount and weights of the bags to our international destinations more than makes up for the fact that we might work a couple less flights than Southwest. You can't compare apples to oranges.