How many airlines weigh hand baggage?
Leaving Auckland recently Air New Zealand restricted handbaggage to 7kg. and weighed it just before entering Immigration, and after having completed all the formalities at the check-in counter some distance away - Gotcha !!
My bag weighs 4 kg. empty.
Allowed to remove a laptop and carry it as a - quote - 'personal item', which promptly got put back in the bag around the corner, along with other things that I had put in my pockets, and which then weighed more than 7Kg in the overhead locker. Maybe 2 - 3 kg overweight isn't a big deal, but if 600 pax on an Airbus Super-Jumbo did the same ?? and they wouldn't even have the correct aircraft weight, tho' "average" pax weights probably takes care of that, but if the "average" also assumes the 7Kg cabin bag allowance, and all bags and pockets are heavier?