Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear • Hacker News Board

Re: Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear

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Post by Markoff » Sat, May 30, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

rationalist wrote: post #6

marcta wrote: post #3

There is a reason that luggage has to be weighed. If you watch Mentour Pilot, there's a not insignificant number of plane accidents (and outright disasters) that occur due to the plane weight being calculated incorrectly, and thereby running out of fuel. https://www.evionica.com/blog/blog/how-much-the-passenger-we...

Wouldn't it be possible to install strain gauges in the landing gears to determine the plane's weight?

seems it would be easier just to have them at boarding gate for all passing passengers

Re: Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear

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Post by 0x000xca0xfe » Sat, May 30, 2026, 7:10 PM UTC

bushwart wrote: post #12

Looks great for summer. The many pockets seem especially practical for organizing wads of travel cash and supplements like creatine, protein powder, magnesium capsules, etc. They should consider producing a niqab version for Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia.

Don't forget a bunch of wires (there is always the right USB or aux cable missing, right?) and a spare cellular phone or two!

Re: Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear

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Post by spidercat » Sun, May 31, 2026, 2:02 AM UTC

OutOfHere wrote: post #16

bushwart wrote: post #12

Looks great for summer. The many pockets seem especially practical for organizing wads of travel cash and supplements like creatine, protein powder, magnesium capsules, etc. They should consider producing a niqab version for Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia.

I strongly advise keeping all supplements in a checked bag, with good written labels about what they are. I keep them in ziploc bags with very clear labels. For mixed stacks, write DAILY VITAMINS, DAILY PROTEIN, etc. If you carry them with you while going through security, you're just asking to be strip searched and questioned.

I can only speak towards TSA in the US, but they explicitly state that they do not search for drugs; their priority is to screen for explosives, weapons, things of that nature. Anytime I travel with my beloved Mystery Powder supplements, I always just put them in my carry-on luggage. I've lost count of how many times I've done this, and it's never been an issue, stateside and abroad.

Of course, all of the supplements etc I've traveled with have been very much legal and mainstream enough (e.g. creatine, magnesium), in case security do get suspicious, but it has not once been an issue.

Re: Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear

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Post by jareklupinski » Sun, May 31, 2026, 3:05 AM UTC

wavemode wrote: post #14

marcta wrote: post #3

There is a reason that luggage has to be weighed. If you watch Mentour Pilot, there's a not insignificant number of plane accidents (and outright disasters) that occur due to the plane weight being calculated incorrectly, and thereby running out of fuel. https://www.evionica.com/blog/blog/how-much-the-passenger-we...

Carry-on luggage is usually not weighed, there are simply safety margins in place for that sort of thing. (A human probably isn't capable of carrying a bag heavy enough to erode those margins.) And fuel burn is the least of the concerns when it comes to weight - a far bigger issue is how it affects balance and engine lift. But on a plane the size of a jet airliner, this too is almost never a real concern when it come…

> Maybe if the airline notices that all the passengers are sitting on the left (for some strange reason) or something like that, they would reseat people.

I was on a turboprop plane when they made a few people switch seats to balance the weight: the seats were arranged Seat - Aisle - Seat - Seat , and all the singles on the left side were filled to the back, with only a few seats on the right side taken.

Re: Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear

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Post by OutOfHere » Sun, May 31, 2026, 7:56 AM UTC

spidercat wrote: post #23

OutOfHere wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I strongly advise keeping all supplements in a checked bag, with good written labels about what they are. I keep them in ziploc bags with very clear labels. For mixed stacks, write DAILY VITAMINS, DAILY PROTEIN, etc. If you carry them with you while going through security, you're just asking to be strip searched and questioned.

I can only speak towards TSA in the US, but they explicitly state that they do not search for drugs; their priority is to screen for explosives, weapons, things of that nature. Anytime I travel with my beloved Mystery Powder supplements, I always just put them in my carry-on luggage. I've lost count of how many times I've done this, and it's never been an issue, stateside and abroad. Of course, all of the supplements…

Even if that were true, if you carry bulk powders in your carry-on, at minimum it is their assumed responsibility to visually examine it for not being an explosive powder. I have had to remove these powders from the carry-on bag for them to see. After seeing the labels, they consulted a senior officer, and only then let me through. For this reason, if I have a check-in bag, I keep it there.

Re: Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear

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Post by spidercat » Sun, May 31, 2026, 4:56 PM UTC

OutOfHere wrote: post #25

spidercat wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can only speak towards TSA in the US, but they explicitly state that they do not search for drugs; their priority is to screen for explosives, weapons, things of that nature. Anytime I travel with my beloved Mystery Powder supplements, I always just put them in my carry-on luggage. I've lost count of how many times I've done this, and it's never been an issue, stateside and abroad. Of course, all of the supplements…

Even if that were true, if you carry bulk powders in your carry-on, at minimum it is their assumed responsibility to visually examine it for not being an explosive powder. I have had to remove these powders from the carry-on bag for them to see. After seeing the labels, they consulted a senior officer, and only then let me through. For this reason, if I have a check-in bag, I keep it there.

Oh, I probably should have mentioned that I almost always keep my powders capped - I just cap them myself at the doses I need. Keeping the powder loose probably does raise more flags. I'm just so used to capping them, I didn't even think about how sketchy loose powder in ziploc baggies could look.