Weighing of Carry-on Bags

Not sure if you wanted us to send you a PM or post here. (This thread could get really long.) 1 Lufthansa, 8 kg 2 Denver, FRA 3 RS Convertible 4 Black 5 Bag was weighed
6 Bag was less than the limit I've made 5 round trips across the pond on Lufthansa with black carryons (RS & OPEC). This (2004) was the only time my bag was weighed at their request(1). It was weighed at check in, not at the gate. However, the bags are regulation size (or a little smaller) and not packed to bulging. (1) In 2001 I came into the Fernbahnhof at FRA and got my boarding pass at the Lufthansa desk at the station. I didn't check my bag there, but I asked them to weigh it. I had 9 lb of literature (including a book and two glossy magazine type resort broshures) and the bag weighed 26 lb. At the desk they said I might have to check it at the gate, but no one at the gate said anything.

I've been using an ebags weekender and just changed to a campmoor essential carry-on to save a little more weight (both bags are black). I always travel light. Usually I don't even approach the limit. The one I cared about recently was SAS to Copenhagen (from Dulles) summer 2010. Their carry-on allowance is 8kg, one bag - no personal item. I bought a luggage scale to make sure I was under the limit. My bag hasn't been weighed to date. Maybe because I always check in ahead of time and go straight to the gate. For SAS, staff did wander the gate area (both coming and going) and chose some for weighing and measuring. The people they talked to were either carrying two items (their bag plus a too-large personal item) or had their carry-on obviously overstuffed. In both cases they were strict about making them check something. They looked at our carry-ons, smiled, said hi, and walked right by.

I had to check my 21" wheeled bag on easyJet. The woman in line in front of me had a large, bulky, frameless backpack. When challenged, she said "I can make it smaller." They let her carry it on. This time, I just paid upfront to check my bag. There is no way I can stuff everything into one bag to carry onto an easyJet plane, even traveling as light as I do. My easyJet tickets ending up costing about twice the quoted rate because of the checked bag and my use of a Visa credit card to pay for it.

1) Singapore Air, ANA, Thai, Garuda, Lion Air, Bangkok Airways, Express Air (Indonesia), Air Mandalay, easyJet, Jet4You, SpanAir...various official weight limits which seemed shockingly low (8-10kg) - sorry, too many to remember. 2) departures/arrivals included: Seattle; San Francisco; Los Angeles; Tokyo; Hong Kong; Singapore, Bangkok, Phuket, Krabi, Chiangmai, Sukhothai, Ko Lanta (Thailand); Jakarta, Jogjakarta, Denpasar, Sorong, Makassar, Manado, Surabaya, Ambon, Ujung Padang (Indonesia); Siem Reap (Cambodia); Madrid; Marrakesh; Fes; Paris-Orly...I'm sure I'm forgetting some, and not listing the large airlines that didn't have a listed weight limit for carry-ons. 3) Old REI soft-side convertible - they don't make it anymore (I wish they did - I'd buy 2 more!). I've had it since the late 1980s and I've taken it on every trip I've made since then. It's rectangular, just about exactly the "standard" international max. carry-on size (average of current legacy/national carriers' size). 4) Black 5) Never weighed on any of the above flights (not even EasyJet or Jet4You, when I was expecting it). Only time it was weighed was on Cayman Airways Express, little 10-seat twin prop puddle jumpers where they weight everything.
5a) N/A Good luck with your project!

1. Air New Zealand 7 kilos 2. LAX Auckland 3. Tom Bihn Western Flyer 4. Red 5. Yes, but personal item not weighed 5. Not overweight 1 Air China 5 kilos 2. Vancouver Beijing 3. Tom Bihn Tristar 4. Steel grey 5. Not weighed 1. Air China 5 kilos 2. Beijing Guangzhou 3. Tom Bihn Tristar 4. Steel grey 5. Weighed 5a Had to check it 1. Air China 5 kilos 2. Guangzhou Beijing 3. Tom Bihn Tristar 4. Steel grey 5. Weighed
5a Left counter, rearranged stuff into personal item, put sweater on under blazer, and stuffed items into coat pockets, just made limit and got it onboard.

1. SAS 8 kilos 2. Seattle (sadly not possible anymore) Copenhagen 3. Tom Bihn Tristar 4. Steel grey 5. Not weighed 5a Yay for not weighing because it was probably about a kilo or two overweight 1. SAS 8 kilos 2. Amsterdam-Copenhagen-Seattle 3. Tom Bihn Tristar 4. Steel grey
5. Not weighed at AMS, not weighed at Copenhagen after VDB and return to airport the next day

1. Lufthansa, 8 kg 2. Frankfurt-Munich 3. REI backpack, unsure what model 4. gray 5. not weighed, but it was just underweight anyway