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    Posted: 12 May 2012 at 4:18pm
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Can anyone tell me if Corfu airport have scales that you can use to check the weight of your luggage before you check it in as last year we got charged for being slightly over.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 May 2012 at 4:30pm
Don't think so Sue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 May 2012 at 4:49pm
Hi Bob
Oh that's a shame, I was hoping I could of taken some things out of cases and put in hand luggage instead.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 May 2012 at 6:04pm
We take a small digital scale with us so we can weigh each case as we pack it(both ways).
That we we get all the booze we can legally bring back without risking any excess charges.
Just bought a second one from ebay last week to weigh things in my garage.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 May 2012 at 6:34pm
We go away at least twice a year, and have invested in some from Lakeland, which are more expensive, but you don't have to struggle with holding the case until somebody else checks the weight. The Lakeland ones display the weight after you have weighed them, so that you don't have to struggle.

More than pay for themselves when compared to an extra 1kg of surcharges

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 May 2012 at 2:09am
We have the Lakeland ones and they are well worth the money xx
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 May 2012 at 2:25am
When returning home on Friday my suitcase was 1.3 kilos over my allowance and the lovely check-in girl didn't charge me excess.Big smile  (I must buy a new set of scales as I might not be so lucky next time!)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 May 2012 at 2:58am
Hi all
Thanks for the replies, we have got some of those scales so we will take them with us.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 May 2012 at 8:05am
Going away soon, so going on line after this to Lakeland. Thanks everyone.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 May 2012 at 9:10am
Mine hold the weight display on as well.
They also have a tape measure built in so you can check your hand luggage is not too bigBig smile
They even display the temperature!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 May 2012 at 9:49am
Hi Kinninviekid,

Thanks for the link on the scales. My checked in case when packed to the hilt never does weigh over 20kg but I always worry about my hand luggage. I have a cabin size case and you really have to be careful on these charter flights, so it will be very useful for them. Schedule flights don't usually question the cases, even charter flights in Asia and Australia don't bother, it just seems to be the UK.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 May 2012 at 10:32am
That's what I like about EasyJet. You have to keep within the 20kg for the hold but hand luggage is only restricted by size. If you can lift it into the overhead locker it can go.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 May 2012 at 9:49am
Hi Kernowman,

No problem lifting our cabin cases in the lockers, it just seems the charter flights are a lot different and have different luggage sizes according to who you fly with. Speak soon.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 May 2012 at 1:22pm
Last time we went to Corfu our suitcase weighed under when going out.  Exactly same in suitcase coming back - and it weighed over and they charged us £20.  Must have been the damp absorbed from being beside the sea!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 May 2012 at 12:18pm
Oops
We came back yesterday and my cheeky hubby only put the case half way on the scales I did not know this but then neither did the check in operator It showed weighing less than when we arrived ...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 May 2012 at 12:21pm
Yes we will try that this time Jan as Corfu Airport scales are well dodgy!!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 May 2012 at 1:14pm
We have just bought those cases that are so much lighter!! When I got home I weighed my usual case
5KGs then I weighed the one I had just bought, 2KGs!! Now this made a massive difference to us, we are going to Tenerife this week and our Luggage Allowance is 15KGs
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 May 2012 at 3:49pm
Ah Kathy have you bought the sub zero g's then?? They are extremely light weight and this does make the difference when you are packing... I also love the stuRdy handle which is much larger and easier to use also.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 May 2012 at 5:41pm
Yes those are the ones, I have 4 wheels on mine and it is easy to just wheel it at my side, much easier in fact than pulling it ~~ totally worth the money.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 May 2012 at 10:18am
WE also have a digital weighing scale which must save us £s in charges and I always take it with us.

Going out to Corfu Monarch weighed our hand luggage but not for the return journey.

There used to be a some suitcase weighing scales at Corfu airport along the corridor between Departures and Arrivals but I do not know if they are there now.



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