Why you should always be the last person on the plane

This is a scene you may be familiar with.

You have packed your carry-on baggage for the flight, and you are fairly certain that you are within the baggage weight limit set by the airline.

But you can’t be sure, because you don’t have a set of scales at home. So guess what it feels like 9kg.

When you arrive at the airport, weigh the bag to see if you are really a group of human-shaped balances. But this bag is too heavy. And there is nothing you can do because you are no longer at home and you cannot simply take apart some objects.

So you pray to the god of travel sent by terminals around the world:

“Please don’t let the ground crew call my bag”.

You begin to avoid eye contact with anyone in uniform. You carried the suitcase on your shoulders briskly, trying to show how light it is. Because you know that if you weigh at the boarding gate, you will pay $9,458 and suffer humiliating stares from smug, weight-conscious passengers in the queue.

After living between the two cities for a while, I took a staggering number of domestic flights with low-cost airlines (let’s face it, the only airline that seems to monitor the weight of your luggage at the door). I found a technique that seems to work.

I wandered around the doorway nearby. Then, when I saw the last passenger in line for boarding and the door was about to close, I took it to the boarding gate. At that stage, the staff just want you to board the plane and take off on time. They have much less chance to weigh your luggage. In fact, this method works for me every time, and I haven’t been called for years.

It should be pointed out that this is not a technique for the more anxious travelers among us. The whole exercise has an exciting “will they end the date, I will be trapped in Adelaide” taste. You don’t want to leave your itinerary too late, so you postpone the departure time and look at them with dirty eyes as you pass by each passenger on the plane.

However, when the local crew pushed the scale to another gate, the sense of accomplishment of your trot was intoxicating.

** It should be noted that this method has a special disadvantage: if the flight is fully booked, usually when you board the flight, all overhead lockers are full, and you must stuff the full bag under the seat. In front of you.

I can hear your criticism from here…

Resolve the argument that this is a dangerous activity, because carry-on restrictions are set for safety reasons. In this regard, I want to say-only those low-cost domestic airlines who want to make more money will weigh their luggage at the gate. I have never had this happen on a domestic flight of Virgin Atlantic or Qantas. They don’t seem to fall into the sea because someone puts on too many hats.So my guess is that the security issue is a furphy (especially when you consider that they never say you can not Accept it. They just charge you).

For everyone who says “just follow the restrictions”, you are right-this is the best attack plan. But sometimes you don’t have a scale at home, or you just bought a pair of quite heavy sequined platform shoes in the store in the terminal building, and your kindness disappears.

Dear friends, it’s time to put down your sunglasses, hang out at the door, and reflect the spirit of carrying it with you.

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