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Check Your Airline Luggage WeightAvoid Excess Baggage Charges by Weighing Checked-In Bags at Home
Do your bags exceed your airline's luggage weight allowance? Or is your baggage just over the limit? Check before leaving home with a Balanzza digital luggage scale.
You know what your airline's luggage weight allowance is, but how can you check if your bags are going to be within the limits until you're at the front of the check-in queue? And what happens if your suitcases are just a pound or kilo over the limit? You need a Balanzza digital home scale to weigh your bags before you leave home. With the price of oil increasing every day, and fuel surcharges now a standard part of many air fares, this becomes an increasingly important question. The heavier a plane, the more fuel it burns, and the more strict airlines become about enforcing those luggage allowances. There's even been talk about them weighing each passenger and making excess passenger weight charges. That's not so far-fetched. Fly on some airlines in remote places, where the planes are small, and it's not unknown for passengers to be weighed to enable the crew to distribute the weight evenly round the plane. Trying to check the weight of your luggage isn't easy. Do you try to balance the bags on the bathroom scales? If you weigh yourself, and then weigh yourself again while carrying a bag, will the difference give you an accurate weight for the bag? Can you afford to make mistakes, with excess baggage charges being as high as they are? There are such things as fishermen's scales, and butcher's scales, with hooks on the end, but these tend to expensive, and don't always go as high as you need in order to weigh luggage. They often have a hook on the end too, which is not the easiest thing to suspend some suitcases from. The Balanzza digital home scale is the answer. It's about half an inch thick, and less than five inches long if you exclude the handle on top and the strap underneath. It has an adaptable strap that will fit round any luggage, or a suitcase handle, and a rugged but comfortable handle of its own. Despite being so small itself, it can hold up to 100lb or 44kg, which should be enough for anyone. You can choose pounds or kilograms as your measuring unit, and switch between them. The digital display is large and easy to read, and the 'hold' feature allows you to put the bag down before having to try to read the face of the scale – could be handy for the solo traveler. In short, it's one of those simple gadgets that will be indispensable for the frequent or even the occasional flyer. Practical InformationThe Balanzza digital luggage scale costs £19.99 in the UK and can be ordered online, postage within the UK included, from the Balanzza website. Price in the USA is $24.95, and can be ordered from the US Balanzza website.
The copyright of the article Check Your Airline Luggage Weight in U.K./Ireland Travel is owned by Mike Gerrard. Permission to republish Check Your Airline Luggage Weight in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
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