[Rome2000]

Had a good one yesterday, Spirit put too much fuel on board an A319 for a flight from New Orleans to Atlanta and needed 9 “volunteers “ to deplane along with their checked luggage because we were too heavy to take off.

They offered to put them on another airline the same day and a round trip ticket on a future flight.

They had no problem getting the nine people, they got off cheap as far as I’m concerned.

Don’t see how 2500 pounds makes that much of a difference, the plane was about 75 percent full of people to begin with, they must have screwed up real bad and added enough fuel to get to LAX.

[redcatcherb412]

Don’t see how 2500 pounds makes that much of a difference,

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If it upsets the center of gravity or the air temperature is climbing reducing lift, or the runway length just isn’t enough to clear those fences at the end etc etc. Many factors, but the option of a failed takeoff pinwheeling across the tarmac or the weight reduction, take the weight reduction, recalculate the CG and hold on until the acft attains V2.

[cornfedcowboy]

It is important for landing that they not have too much fuel. Therefore they need to start out with less. I have been in plenty of flights where they had too much fuel. They just pull over on the tarmac and burn it off. 2500 lbs though is a lot of fuel.