Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Berwyn Simon Simon 3, 17 17 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Changed my accepted answer to this. While Itai pointed out that getting a feel is a good idea, getting a feel is never accurate enough for me to know whether I'll have to pay a fee at the airport for overweight luggage.
Add a comment. This is what I used to do when traveling with a bicycle. Itai Itai Mark Mayo Mark Mayo k 95 95 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.
Andrew Ferrier Andrew Ferrier This is not the ultimate answer, but just an extra tip in case you don't have a scale and have no idea what to do: I have seen my self in that situation more than once. What I usually do is: If it's a returning trip and I weighted my suitcase at departure home or airport I know how much weight I have available.
I just try to put the same content or less and estimate the extra weight I want to put in souvenirs, documents, whatever If I have no clue than it's bad, but I try to pick the heaviest things and put it on the hand luggage. Hand luggage can be weighted but there are several situations that make a bit easier to handle. You can than return to ask for the "approved hand luggage" sticker if that applies.
In any situation try not to arrive late to the airport so you have time to handle the situation. David Richerby Ashok Nikumbh Ashok Nikumbh 1. Please use lower case letters, this is rather painful to read.
Honestly, I dont think that a device involving a spring balance, a two-meter lever and a welded steel frame counts as "simple". Also, I imagine that most people would be unwilling to give up the space needed to store this device, given how rarely it would be used. That way, you won't have to remove items or pay extra while at the check-in counter. For most big airline companies, such as Delta, United and American Airlines, the weight requirement for checked baggage is the same.
The bag must be under 50 pounds, and the bag's size cannot exceed 62 inches when the length, width and height are added together. Some airlines let passengers with premium tickets bring bags that weigh up to 70 pounds. Budget airlines, like Spirit, don't allow checked bags that weigh more than 40 pounds, and they charge a steep price too. Many airlines, not just budget ones, charge for checked baggage and even more if the bag exceeds weight limits.
To be sure, check the website of the airline for its specific weight requirements. The weight requirements for carry-on luggage are much more varied than those for checked baggage, and airlines across the world have different rules when it comes to carry-ons.
In many cases, it's not so much the weight of the bag but the size of it. The bag must fit in the overhead compartment, and each airline generally has a crate at the airport so passengers can see if their bag fits inside. Some airlines have weight restrictions on carry-on luggage in addition to the size requirements.
Check out your local gym. If you have a gym somewhere nearby, you can call ahead and ask them if you can use their scales for weighing your luggage. Most gyms will have several options available so gym-goers can track their weight. At most hotels and hostels. Many hotels realize that their customers might forget a luggage scale and need to quickly weigh their luggage before the flight.
So they usually will have larger scales available in the lobby or behind the desk that you can use for free or for a small fee. At the airport.
As a last resort, you can just weigh your luggage at the airport. Be prepared for the possibility that you might have to discard things from your luggage before your flight, though! Someone to give you an extra helping hand. Place the plank on top of a horizontally placed water bottle. Make sure to center the water bottle in the middle. Place your luggage on one end of the plank, and ask someone to hold it in place.
Start adding the items with known weights on the second end until you reach equilibrium. Again, make sure that the water bottle is in the middle because both ends have to be equal in length for it to work.
Weighing Your Luggage With a Regular Bathroom Scale at Home If you have a regular bathroom scale at home for tracking your weight, then you can easily weigh your suitcase with it. Pick up your luggage and again stand on the scale. Now read the new weight with your luggage included. Here are the carry-on weight limits for the most common airlines: American Airlines: No weight limit. The best way of doing this is to estimate your luggage weight.
In this article, we will learn how to weigh luggage without a scale at home, and some other methods of estimating your luggage weight. You might already know that some airports provide weighing services. This is the easiest method that requires your minimum efforts. So get that handheld luggage scale and find out the weight of your luggage effortlessly in less time possible. Often times, you use it for measuring your weight to check your current weight in comparison to your last checked weight.
You can use this bathroom scale in a similar way for weighing your luggage. Keep in mind that this measurement will give you just an approximate number. But, you can easily find out the estimate by keeping your luggage less than 50 pounds. The simplest way is that of using a balancing method with the help of your household items and using a plank. This method will give you a rough idea of whether or not your luggage is overweight. Firstly, start with getting a plank that is wide and strong enough to be used as a balance.
Secondly, find something that you can use as a fulcrum to support both sides of a plank. Fulcrum should be heavy enough to support the weight of two sides as well as the plank itself.
Find any household item that is round in shape, such as a large can of something. Fulcrum is where you will place your wooden plank on. It can be any household items like a gallon of water, dumbbells, and food items like rice check back packaging to find out its weight , and so on.
In order to balance two sides, place your plank on top of the fulcrum, make sure the fulcrum is in the middle and in and center.
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