Budget Airlines Cabin Luggage Overweight? What happen

adindas

I understand budget airlines have restriction to the weight of the luggage you could take to the cabin. This is in addition to fit to luggage sizer.
Wizz Air and or Ryan Air for Instance will restrict the weight of up to 10 Kg for priority customer. While other budget airlines such as Euro Wing, Norwegian air have limit of up to 8 KG.
Do they actually weight your luggage?

richardw

If you ask at the Vueling check in desk for your boarding card, they’ll weigh your hand luggage.

TELLIT01

Any airline, budget or otherwise, is perfectly entitled to check the size and weight of hand luggage and insists it goes into the hold if it doesn't meet all their requirements. They can also charge for doing that.
The customer can't just pay the charge for overweight and still take it on board.
I wish more airlines did enforce their rules as I am sick of seeing people jamming huge pieces of luggage into overhead lockers thereby denying people who have stuck to the rules. On our last return flight a woman sat in an emergency exit row was told her bag had to go into the overhead, and replied that she couldn't do that as it was too heavy for her to lift! Hand luggage limit was supposedly 10kg and she must have been physically fit to sit in the emergency exit rows.

leylandsunaddict

While other budget airlines such as Euro Wing, Norwegian air have limit of up to 8 KG.

Norwegian is 10kg in economy. It's only on DXB flights where it's 8kg.

All airlines are entitled to weigh hand luggage. Whether they do or not is down to the agent on the day. If its overweight then you pay to check it into the hold, it isn't possible to buy extra hand luggage.

leylandsunaddict

Few Airlines such as Easy Jet, Wizz Air just mention about the size but never mention about the weight limit

Easyjet don't have a weight limit but you have to be able to lift your bag into the overheads yourself. Wizz website is quite clear. They have a limit of 10kg.

Westin

At Gatwick I have seen boarding gate areas with both airline sizer units and a separate scale unit.

Pollycat

adindas wrote: »

Has anyone ever seen whether they actually weight your luggage at the gate in recent years (say in the last three years) ?
If yes, how do they do that if they don't have scale fitted to the sizer anymore ?

It sounds to me like you're planning to take more than the weight limit stated by the airline you're flying with.

Even if every poster tells you that the airline you're flying with doesn't have scales at the gate, you may turn up and find their new policy is to weigh every piece of hand luggage before boarding.
As long as you're OK with having your hand luggage taken from you and being charged a (probably hefty) fee if your luggage is overweight, just pack whatever you want.
And risk it.

soolin

Westin wrote: »

At Gatwick I have seen boarding gate areas with both airline sizer units and a separate scale unit.

I travel a fair bit and like you have seen scales discretely in one corner , almost not noticeable , at most gates. I tend to use easyJet so the stuff is just measured, not weighed. In 2018 though bags were being weighed on a BA flight at Gatwick and around the same time I've seen Norwegian weigh bags.

my son had his stuff weighed at Stansted with Ryanair last year, him and all his mates did, but that was under the old rules when they were allowed to take cases on board without an extra charge.

It's just luck of the draw, I suspect most of the time people will get away with it , but every now and then it is enforced and it's a gamble whether you risk it or not.

fifeken

adindas wrote: »

Thanks Guys.
Back to original enquiry.

Has anyone ever seen whether they actually weight your luggage at the gate in recent years (say in the last three years) ?
If yes, how do they do that if they don't have scale fitted to the sizer anymore ?

It doesn't matter - just be reasonable and stick to the rules instead of trying to steal from the airline. This is a moneysaving site, not a cheating one.