Originally Posted by
cordelli
The only place I've ever seen them weigh everything is in China.
In many other places, the scales are at the gates, but they only weigh the ones where people are obviously straining to lift them or they are huge. If you stay invisible as mentioned above, they usually don't care.
Only once have I had any trouble in China--and the bag wasn't really that heavy, it was a well-padded camera bag. Fortunately my wife talked them out of insisting it be checked.
They've never made an issue out of my laptop bag even though it's actually heavier than the one they didn't like.