Scales of injustice? Airport scales are not always accurate. Weigh your luggage at home so you don't get caught out and have to fork out a fortune.(News)

The Star (South Africa) | October 22, 2007 | Copyright

It seems that Joburg businesswoman Maria van Rijn's experience - she was charged more than R1 000 for overweight baggage thanks to an allegedly inaccurate SAA scale at OR Tambo airport - is by no means an isolated case. Nor is the problem confined to one airline or one airport.

Many thanks to all those who e-mailed me their own experiences of improbable weights displayed by various airport scales.

Maria's suitcase weighed in at 24kg at OR Tambo airport - 4kg more than the limit - but the same suitcase tipped the scale at a European airport two days later at ...

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