Luggage weighs more than you think it should? Maybe it's the scale if you're at JFK {Gadling}

Nov 24th 2008 8:32PM Last Friday, we were checking in for a Delta Airlines flight from Tampa to Atlanta. When one of my colleagues put her luggage on the scale, it read 55 pounds. She either had to take off 5 pounds, or pay a $175 fee. So she started taking out stuff and putting that on the scale, until that read 5 pounds. Then, after weighing her luggage again, the scale read ... 34 pounds. So, she put everything that she had taken out back in (allegedly 5 pounds), after which the scale indicated 44 pounds. When I told the Delta Airlines staff that their scale needed some serious recalibration, one of them told us she could feel without weighing that the luggage was to heavy anyway. I couldn't help but to start laughing, after which she checked in our luggage without saying another word. So if the American Airlines scales at JFK are off, I bet they can't compete with those those of Delta at Tampa airport :)