Back in the 1980s, a desk clerk at the Dubuque airport weighed my luggage and then asked me my weight before she assigned my seat on a flight to Chicago. When I

Back in the 1980s, a desk clerk at the Dubuque airport weighed my luggage and then asked me my weight before she assigned my seat on a flight to Chicago. When I saw the size of the airplane (20 seats or so), I was not surprised. But that was for trim, not for cumulative weight.