another issue possibly affecting you and your equipment when flying:
air lines enforcing carry on weight limits:
" . . . Australian airline Qantas (QUBSF) is cracking down on people who travel with heavy carry-on bags, according to a report published this week by Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph. Passengers whose bags exceed the airline’s carry-on weight limit — 7 kilograms (15.4 pounds) — will be forced to gate-check them. . . .
Weight limits on carry-on luggage may seem a tad unusual to American travelers. Stateside, Hawaiian Airlines (HA) and Frontier Airlines are the only two major U.S. carriers to list limits on how heavy carry-on items may be — 25 pounds and 35 pounds respectively . . .
Overseas though, weight restrictions are fairly standard. Indeed, most international airlines based outside the U.S. have some sort of weight limit, including popular carriers such as Lufthansa (DLAKY) British Airways (UK:IAG) KLM (KLMR) Air France (AFLYY) and All Nippon Airways (JP:9202) These rules are also commonplace among budget carriers —besides Frontier, Ryanair (MX:RYAN) WOW Air and Norwegian Air all have limits in place.
Nevertheless, an airline actually enforcing its carry-on weight restrictions across most of its itineraries is somewhat unusual. “Lots of airlines have carry-on weight limits that either aren’t enforced or are enforced inconsistently,” said Brian Sumers, senior aviation business editor at travel website Skift. Some airlines only weigh carry-on luggage if a passenger checks in with an agent at the airport rather than online.
‘There is no end to the race to the bottom
But that spotty enforcement doesn’t mean such policies won’t become more prevalent, . . . "
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This airline is now weighing passengers? carry-on luggage
so if your carry on has more than your photography equipment ( or yours is heavy ) you might be forced to gate check