{"id":59232,"date":"2023-10-16T13:16:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T04:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/16\/weighty-issue-japan-airlines-lays-on-extra-plane-after-sumo-wrestlers-make-aircraft-too-heavy-to-fly"},"modified":"2023-10-16T13:16:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T04:16:25","slug":"weighty-issue-japan-airlines-lays-on-extra-plane-after-sumo-wrestlers-make-aircraft-too-heavy-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59232","title":{"rendered":"Weighty issue: Japan Airlines lays on extra plane after sumo wrestlers make aircraft too heavy to fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns over fuel capacity with wrestlers onboard led to national carrier taking the \u2018unusual step\u2019 of transferring sumo rikishi to another flight<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s 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\u2019s heaviest men.<\/p>\n<p>Japan Airlines took the \u201cvery unusual\u201d step of transferring a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jun\/19\/its-exhilarating-japans-female-sumo-wrestlers-take-on-sexism\">sumo wrestlers<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/16\/weighty-issue-japan-airlines-lays-on-extra-plane-after-sumo-wrestlers-make-aircraft-too-heavy-to-fly\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerns over fuel capacity with wrestlers onboard led to national carrier taking the \u2018unusual step\u2019 of transferring sumo rikishi to another flightJapan\u2019s flagship carrier has been forced to lay on an extra flight at short notice after concluding that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,1483,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-sumo-wrestling","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59233,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59232\/revisions\/59233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}