You probably wouldn't demand a do-over on the scale at the doctor's office, but an inaccurate weigh-in there wouldn't cost you a dime. When it comes to weighing your luggage, however, an airport scale that's off can be costly. It's times like these when requesting a re-do makes sense for your bottom line.
Budget Travel comes right out and says that airport scales often lie. Scales at several major airports aren't properly calibrated, which means passengers are paying hefty fees for overweight luggage when their bags aren't actually too heavy. Brandon Macsata of the Association For Airline Passenger Rights recommends that passengers weigh their bags at home first; if the airport scale seems off, ask that your bags be weighed on a different scale.
Citizens of Humanity
LK Bennett
Guerlain
NOT SURPRISED. Ryanair has a nasty habit of always finding luggage heavier than other scales...
1I experienced this first hand. We weigh our luggage all the time and always make sure there are a couple of pounds allowance. When we were checking in our luggage, it was about 2 pounds heavier. We took about 2 pounds of items from the luggage and the luggage became more than 5 pounds lighter!
2The handlers at the counter are about the rudest personnel you encounter as you make your way through the process to actually get on the plane. If anyone ever has any luck getting someone who will accommodate you in schlepping the luggage around to different scales until the weight in something you deem accurate, let me know. Generally, my experience is that they treat passengers as an annoyance even without any special requests on the passengers' part.
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