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DashAviator
It's rare, but it does happen. Some of the most common reasons include:
(3) Short, heavy leg. Your takeoff weight is probably burn limited (the Q400 can take off at 65,200 lbs, but only if you burn off 3,200 lbs of fuel before you land). YVR-SEA and SEA-PDX are frequently burn limited. We were exactly one pound under our maximum on a recent SEA-PDX flight, but got both jumpseaters on board.
Hope that helps.
How could you be one pound under gross? Isn’t everything rounded to the nearest ten pounds? Do they still use the index method there, as in your takeoff weight would look something like 63,452.45?