Loosing Weight!

[Mal]

I had to travel to Melbourne for work last weekend, flying with Jet Star. Great airline wonderful service, always get an exit row! Nice when you are tall.
They are really strict on weight. And today they were cracking down on carry on luggage weight, I have had this a few times now in different airports. (The restriction is 7kg.)
But today they were weighing everything! Even handbags! I pulled out my ipod, diary, notepads, books etc and shoved them in my cargo pants (nice use of the big pockets) shoved the computer under my arms and hoped that my bag would pass the weigh in.
I lug around my Magnum AW, which has everything that I could possibly need for photography and also work. The weight was over! I was asked to take my check in luggage and place some of my carry on into it. What do you put in “check in” that you are happy to have thrown around? Answer nothing.
Thankfully I was able to shove the flash into another pocket and got the weight to exactly 7kg.
Moral to this…. If you are going to fly Jet Star travel with big pockets!

[Alpha_7]

Not what I thought it was going to be about, but still an interesting read.
I was told on the bus last weekend that I had to have 20kg or less for my baggage (and only 2 bags). I managed to squeeze on with a 25kg bag, and strapped a plastic bag of food and drink onto the outside of my MicroTrekker to get it on the bus. The 7kg is going to be an issue come Fiji, Kate is planning on taking my laptop, and my the camera gear, with anything we can safely stow in our main luggage (perhaps the flash?). While I have a rule never to wear cargo pants/short, I might have to change this to get all my gear to Fiji and back, thanks for the idea.

[fozzie]

Mal - now I know why I fly Virgin.

[Mal]

Mal - now I know why I fly Virgin.

Yes they are nice to fly with but they don't accept my Qantas Club membership

[moggy]

When we flew with Qantas to Norfolk Island last December they were very strict about the weight of carry on luggage both ways. One of our party was 3kg over and they made her re-distribute the contents of her bags.

Bob.

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[wendellt]

i fly virgin too they do have a weight restriction for carry on luggage 12kg but don't enforce it

emirates has a very strict carry on luggage restriction andthey don't allow you on the flight if your over evenif your willing to pay the excess fee

the other moral is not to brign too much camera equipment unless your willing to risk putting some of it in the check in luggage

[losfp]

At the moment I am travelling on Virgin Blue twice a week. I squeeze my work laptop and enough gear/clothes to last me 2 nights into a laptop backpack (one of the targus ones), and pretty much every week I tote around 9-10kg of stuff, easily.. Sometimes more.

No one has ever stopped me to weigh my bag though. I simply use their web check in, and go straight through the metal detectors when I arrive at the airport

I daresay DeathStar, er, Jetstar, would be more stringent on weight.. just like with everything else. Pockets, and carrying laptops, books seperately can make the difference!

[jerrysk8]

yeh web checkin or e-checkin is the way to go. avoids queues as well. but if you do checkin at the counter just leave your camera bag with a friend while you checkin at the counter. i'd never checkin my camera gear.

[psionic]

Wait until you go to board a plane and realise that the pilot has a set of scales and calculator at the bottom of the steps. You get weighed as you board

Carry on luggage 7kg, main luggage 22kg, any second piece less than 15kg. If too many people are over 85kg then any second piece of luggage from any passenger is pulled out of the cargo hold until the pilot is happy with the weight. Any luggage left behind goes back freight on the next flight, if they have spare weight capacity. My first experience travelling Papua New Guinea for work.

I've mainly flown American, United, Southwest, Air Canada, Qantas, and Virgin of late and they rate highly on my list compared to PNG Air Services.

/M.

[PiroStitch]

Lol! Sounds like something out of the Simpsons with taking out stuff from a bag and putting it in your pockets

[Alpha_7]

If too many people are over 85kg

Man, I don't even make the check in, let alone my bags Time to start dieting, wonder how long it would take to lose the weight of say the 10-20 and the 80-200

[nito]

I often worry about the weight restrictions on flights. My laptop and camera equipment weighs at least 12 kg. Never will meet the 7 kg limit.

[whiz]

Any chance we can edit the topic so that it's "Losing" and not "Loosing"?
Lets try and stamp out this most common misspelling.

I more often than not get on Qantas with three carry on pieces of heavy kit. One bit is below regulations. The other bit is above regulations.
We're not allowed to let them go into the baggage hold unless we witness it going in and the hold door shut and get let off the aircraft to see the hold door opened.
National security requirements....

The day that they start making life hard for me, is the day that I start making life hard for them...

My camera ALWAYS goes in the carry on backpack..

[LOZ]

Never have a problem in first class .If my bags are too heavy the cute little hostess with big tits on Lynx carry the bags on for me , the reason that you have problems in cattle class is if anything falls out of the over head locker with any weight it may kill you LOZ

[LostDingo]

Never have a problem in first class .If my bags are too heavy the cute little hostess with big tits on Lynx carry the bags on for me , the reason that you have problems in cattle class is if anything falls out of the over head locker with any weight it may kill you LOZ

I have loads of compassion for you

LOZ, you have a larger amount of weight you can carry in 1st class don't you?

[aswcheng]

I often worry about the weight restrictions on flights. My laptop and camera equipment weighs at least 12 kg. Never will meet the 7 kg limit.

We recently flew Emirates to NZ. What I've noticed on both the outward/return trips was that they always asked for our backpack to be weighed. At Melb airport, we had to take out a few things to put in another bag to meet the 7Kg restriction. However, nobody seems too fussed at all with my camera bag (even though it would have easily pushed our cabin luggage to way beyond 7kg!). May be I don't carry a big enough camera bag?

Cheers.

[Ivanerrol]

The 20 Kg load limit for checkin hold baggage goes back 50 years plus to the dark ages of propeller planes. The truth is that Modern large passenger jets are very hard to overload. The excuse that iata comes up with is that some leg of a journey might be taken with a weight dependent aircraft - what a load of baloney.

This 20 Kg limit is an excuse for airlines to fatten their profits.

If you have travelled on third world countries airlines you can then see a reason why cabin baggage is restricted. If I have seen live chickens carried on in hand luggage - the worst I've seen was a little kerosene heater that some individual tried to heat water up with during mid flight.

The last time I flew Jetstar - Mel - Maroochydore, my cameras and laptop weighed 8.5 Kg. The laptop power supply and non breakable photo accessories were packed inside the checkin hold luggage. I was singled out in the checkin queue by an officious supervisor and my hand luggage weighed. There was a song and dance until I pointed out that within the fine print of the Jetstar terms and conditions it specifically mentions that expensive breakable items such as laptops and photo gear were not to be packed within checkin luggage. - My 8.5 Kg went with me as hand carry.

The overhead lockers on modern aircraft have doors and these are designed not to open in flight. There is actually a posted weight limit for these overhead lockers. Other hand luggage must be stowed in front of you under the seat in front. This is standard iata ruling.

In the bad old days of propeller planes and DC9's , 707's etc. there were no locable doors on the overhead lockers - this was 30 years ago.

If you want to be nervous, try internal Garuda. You can bribe your way on to an overloaded flight with 100's of kilos of baggage.

Remember the old saying - Every flight is a good flight if you can walk to the terminal after it.

[LOZ]

Emirates are usually very generous with weight one small bag 1AK47 with 50 round Magazine weighs just under 7kg and they allow 3 per family. I’m not shore about the Sydney to Christchurch trip but very common on the Saudi to Kuwait leg

[whiz]

Where are you getting 50 round magazines for your AK47?

[birddog114]

Where are you getting 50 round magazines for your AK47?

Special order from one of the Chicom's factory

[LOZ]

Where are you getting 50 round magazines for your AK47?

http://www.nationlink.com/sksman/acces/ ... zines.html

AK-47 50 RD Magazine
A more economical way of achieving high capacity without going to a drum magazine. Holds 50 rounds, but can be loaded to 55. Heavy gauge blued steel. New.

$45

Whiz do you want to try to get a group purchase and save on freight