Airport Scales

When I flew out of Stanstead I was surprised to find out how close my bags were to the maximum weights permitted by Ryanair.
This was in spite of seeming a couple of kilo's beneath when weighed at home. (I would admit the scales at home have only had a Heath Robinson calibration against proper swing arm scales at bodyweight)

The same bags with roughly the same contents all weighed in much less at Graz where the check in was done by independant airport service.

I may have been weighed in on rogue scales at Stanstead. Do airport scales have to be calibrated?
If not is it a means of squeezing overweight charges when people panic at check in?

I too have been gouged at Stanstead. Took out a single electrical item in a suitcase. As it was new and boxed, the weight was on the carton. I also know the weight of my hard Delsey case, since the mfrs make a sales point about it. The total came to under the weight limit for Ryanair.

I paid £22 excess baggage charges, since there was nothing I could "take out" :lol: :lol:

On my return the Ryanair staff refused to let me weigh my bag on other airport scales b4 check in. When I did check in the scales were swinging 0.5 to 1 kilo. I saw lots of unhappy folk at the airports both ends caught out by this.

I think it's high time that weights and measures (or whatever they are called these days) stopped turning a blind eye to this carp.

Yep they have to calibrated daily and a log kept, and I would guess depending on the issue's they have had with the Irish lot they will be visited by an outside agency at six month to 18 month intervals.

The issue at stansted is with the airline not the airport, as ryanair have their own desks that no one else can use.
Maybe it's time for a macintyre report?

Its an issue about wieght/baggage because we need so much gear for skiing. . .and when we females need all our usual stuff on top . . .well !!

tropicana wrote:Its an issue about wieght/baggage because we need so much gear for skiing. . .and when we females need all our usual stuff on top . . .well !!

Thats a very sexist remark. I also need my other stuff on top. A man needs a choice. And his straighteners.

Tony_H wrote: And his straighteners.

I don't need straighteners, just polish :lol:

and on topic - I have never been able to make heads or tales of any "conformity" both between airlines and within an airline on different journeys. I just do my best and then smile - seems to work.