Originally Posted by
lupine
(Though curious minds still would like to know the calculation behind such a weirdly specific number of bags, and why on this flight when so many other A321neo flights haven't had this.

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Probably short a tail stand (see e.g.
) and something like standard bag weight divided by the number of pounds the CG needed to me moved forward to prevent the multi-million dollar teeter-totter from tilting the wrong direction.