Concerns over fuel capacity with wrestlers onboard led to national carrier taking the ‘unusual step’ of transferring sumo rikishi to another flight
Japan’s flagship carrier has been forced to lay on an extra flight at short notice after concluding that two of its planes were at risk of exceeding their weight limits. The culprit was not excess baggage, however, but a passenger list that included some of the country’s heaviest men.
Japan Airlines took the “very unusual” step of transferring a number of sumo wrestlers to a hastily arranged special flight last week over concerns that the two aircraft they had originally been due to fly would be unable to carry sufficient fuel due to weight restrictions.
The sumo rikishi were scheduled to take Boeing 737-800 flights from Haneda airport in Tokyo and Itami airport in Osaka to Amami Oshima, an island in the far south, where they were due to compete in a sports festival, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said.
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Most of the top division men are at least 300 pounds so yea if you get a bunch of them together this is totally reasonable lol.
Am I the only one confused by the title? What does “lays on extra plane” mean?
What’s so hard, they get an extra plane and stuff it with lays, it’s all air in lays anyway.
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I imagine Japan Airlines has the same issue when transporting Americans. The difference is they make arrangements ahead of time right?