Hmm.
I understand why the excess baggage charge is there, but I do think you have a point.

I wonder what the weight limit is on, say, a 747 before it won't get off the ground (although a quick google search says 394,625kg).

I don't want to be the person who is on the back-end of 400 tonnes smashing back in to the tarmac because the plane was too bloody heavy.

EDIT: Bloody right, Al. I saw on the news this morning that they are going to open a high-speed rail link between London and Glasgow. Which is all well and good, except that it'll probably still be four times as expensive as flying is. I have to go to Cumbria for a wedding in September and the train tickets are £90 each. If train travel wasn't so expensive and unreliable, I wouldn't have so much of a problem with it.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Mon 21 Jul 2008, 11:17, Reply)