I don't know what RJ you're flying, maybe the 70 seater or 74 seater, but the RJs that I commute on are weight restricted the VAST majority of the time when I was commuting from RDU-EWR.

50 seaters almost always restricted to 46-48 seats, which is 4-8% of its passengers. This is a daily occurrence year round.

As a matter of fact, UAL is flying all RJs from IAH-CLT and this summer, I trying to non-rev my parents and oldest 2 children on 50-seater.

There were 10 seats open, so good to go, right?

Got to 5 mins prior to boarding when I couldn't take it anymore since they were number 2 on the standby list. I ask the agent if there was a problem, and they informed me that the 50 seater was weight restricted to 29 seats out of 50. So that was a loss of 42% of it's seating capacity.

So either you're flying a super RJ or maybe a Q400, or I will call BS on this one.

I've flown the 737 for seven years now, and I have only flown one route that I've been weight restricted, and that was Guam to Fiji a long ETOPS route, which ended up getting canceled because not enough demand, and probably not the right aircraft for the route.

That route from ORD-DEN, I'm taking a guess, but I would bet that flight might get a weight restriction 1 or 2 days a year.

When I was commuting, those ****ty ass RJs were always weight restricted, almost every day of the year and it drove me crazy.

I know this comment was meant at an attempt at humor, so I apologize if the humor is lost on me.

I'm sure some other commuters will agree.