Originally Posted by
KingCanute
Every ticket in every cabin includes a contracted checked-in and cabin baggage limit. Yes it may be unusual for cabin baggage to be weighed on full service airlines but none of us has a leg to stand on complaining if we are over the limits and those checks are made.
The weighing of cabin baggage on your flight may have been due to a number of factors affecting that particular journey on that particular day - stronger than normal headwinds, needing to take a longer than usual route to avoid weather or war, full passenger load, higher than expected cargo load, etc - any of which may push the aircraft closer to its performance limits on a very long journey such as LAX-DOH, making the weight and fuel calculations more critical than usual.
Yes, but while the reasons you outline can make careful checks of the weight of baggage sensible, quibbling about the odd extra kg but nonetheless loading it for an extra charge is hardly going to help.
Some airlines and stations (Hello Turkish and Jakarta) can get in a tizzy about the weight of cabin baggage - yes, even for business-class passengers and elites in their very own FFP
. Generally they'll cite the weight limit of lockers, or the health and safety of cabin crew who might need to shift bags around. Or maybe it's just agents with bees in their bonnets or otherwise having a bad day.