Originally Posted by
yonajon
Thanks, it is reassuring to know that weighing carryons at the gate is not common.
I presume it is common to weight carryons at the check-in desks? Is that right?
If so, it would really come down to whether or not I'm able to perform online checkin. Sometimes flights to TLV cannot do online checkin due to the need to perform verbal security screening. Has anyone departed from HAN and had carryons weighed at the check in desks?
I have two pieces of hand luggage - a backpack and a standard sized roller board. The 7kg limitation in J is a bit nuts for me. I'm used to flying Israeli and European carriers who routinely allow 12-16kg in business and US carriers who don't even have a limit.
Thanks for the assistance!
In my experience, at check-in counters for F and J they usually just eyeball the hand luggage, and it’s usually for pieces not weight. I almost always fly HBO, with three pieces, in the 10-12kgs range, and can only recall once being made to check-in a bag over hundreds of sectors.
Every time I have been asked a question about my hang baggage, it’s been at outstations in West and East Africa. Haven’t done TLV with EK before, but I think you should be fine.
As DYKWIA said, if it worries you, probably best to just check in the bags.