eli5: Can anyone explain why all your checked baggage isn’t weighed collectively and instead weighed individually?

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I was recently traveling and decided to check two bags in. Together, they weighed under the limit collectively, but individually one was overweight. Wouldn’t the total weight be all that matter though?

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The weight limit is not for the airplane. It is for all the ground handling equipment, which usually also involves people lifting bags all day. On the ground the baggage is handled individually. So it is weighed individually.

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