Originally Posted by
EJetter
From my personal experience as a passenger, if you stay within the size restrictions it’s unlikely most will exceed 12kg across both permitted items. (Assuming the majority of luggage is taken up with clothes and not gold bullion)
You have to be joking. With IPads, laptops, phones, chargers and cables, toiletries, headphones, make-up, airport purchases (not guilty), a change of shoes, a kindle, clothes for a week, razors in my husbands case, and yes my hairbrush; does this sound like 12kg to you?
I can quite capable of putting these in the overhead locker myself but I let my husband do so as men should be either functional or decorative (he’s both to me).
OP. I can assure you that IB couldn’t care less in Europe. I’ve never seen a scales at the gate. BA are generous in this. That said I’ve not flown Economy in years and am not going to start now, so maybe it’s different back there.