Originally Posted by
threeighteen
No I mean you need to know what your airplane weighs and how many people are on it before leaving the gate...
You need to know what your airplane weighs before push. How else do you determine if you are over maximum ramp/taxi weight?
Why do you think
load planning would allow more passengers and cargo than we had the weight for? The rampers don’t just toss bags on Willy nilly, the gate agents don’t ignore weight restrictions and load full planes when we’re close to the cap.
If somehow we got overweight for the taxi out that would be “not my problem” moment and we’d go back to the gate and the company has a very expensive mx/operational delay.
We know how many people are on the plane from other pre-push documents you’d know about if you worked here.