Holiday carry-on season
Will your bag make the gate scale?
More airlines now weigh and measure cabin bags at the gate, and many international tickets allow 7 kg for everything you carry on. List what you are packing with its weight. The page prints the weigh-in like a receipt, tears it where you cross the limit, and shows what wearing your heaviest things saves. Ask for the gate check when you want the cuts, swaps and a plan for the days.
1 What you are packing
One item a line: item | weight | how many | bag, e.g. Winter boots | 1150 g | 1 | cabin. Weight takes g, kg, oz or lb. Bag is cabin, personal or worn (worn is not weighed). A spreadsheet paste with a header row works too.
2 The allowance
Typical strict cabin allowances run 7-10 kg (an estimate - your ticket is the rule). Blank fields use the page's estimates: 7 kg, a 2.0 kg cabin bag and a 0.5 kg personal item.
3 The weigh-in
What the page sees
The rules the page uses
- A bag's weight = the empty bag + every line packed in it. Worn things are not weighed.
- Tight = under the limit by less than 300 g - gate scales differ, so leave room.
- Wear moves: the heaviest shoes and coat in a bag (traded for the pair or coat you planned to wear) and one piece of clothing of 200 g or more.
- Fits = 300 g or more to spare. Trim = over, but the wear moves leave 1 kg or less to cut. Check a bag = still more than 1 kg over after them.
- The 7 kg default, the empty-bag weights and the 100 ml liquid rule are common rules of thumb and estimates, not any airline's policy.
4 Get the gate check
Metered. The check reads your list and the weigh-in, says what to wear on the plane and what to cut, swap, move, check or ship, plans how the clothes cover the days, and says fits, trim or check a bag. The page re-weighs every move itself and reprints the tape.
Take it with you
The .csv lists every line with its weight each and in total, its bag and kind, liquid and battery flags, and the move and grams saved after a check - ready to print as a packing checklist.