Carry on luggage weighed ?

[ronscuba]

I am booked for a liveaboard trip from Ambon to Sarong,

I'll be flying from the U.S. to Bali.

I've been reading about very low weight restrictions for carry on luggage. Something like 15 lbs. / 7 kgs.

Do they weigh carryon bags for flights into and around Indonesia ?

 

[Cacia]

We were not, but only went to Dempasar (from Norita?)

Sometimes they will gate check your carry ons on the little planes if its too much and then hand it to you when you step off, first thing.

The best way it to probably ask the specific airline as many countries fly in and outof there. We thought security was the best we have experienced, friendly, thorough, practical.

 

[nereas]

The best thing is to have as little carry-on as possible.

A camera, your dive computer, your dive light, without any batteries, and that is all.

 

[Valwood1]

I've been reading about very low weight restrictions for carry on luggage. Something like 15 lbs. / 7 kgs. Do they weigh carryon bags for flights into and around Indonesia ?

Merpati certainly weighs checked bags, and you're sure to be overweight if you have a dive bag and one other piece of luggage. The extra charge isn't much. It did not weight my carryon, which was pretty heavy.

At the same time, on a recent trip from Bima to Denpasar, Merpati decided that it had too much luggage, and arbitrarily (apparently) picked 47 pieces of baggage to remove from the cargo hold, eight of which were from our dive group. The luggage didn't arrive until the next night at 8pm, when many of our group had already departed for the US. Getting the bags back was an expensive pain in the butt.

Lesson 1: Carry the dive essentials if you're flying Merpati (or anything else, IMHO).
Lesson 2: Don't fly Merpati.

 

[kilo_fox]

In the last eight months, I flew quite a lot around in Indonesia, with different airlines, with bigger planes and smaller planes, and was never weighed my carry on luggagge, despite being sometimes quite loaded (like a group of three with two bags each of us, messing around with them...).

 

[ronscuba]

This is good news. I have a small carryon for my camera and lenses that comes in right around 15 lbs. My 2nd carryon is the legal limit size wise, but weighs 40 lbs with my housing, ports, etc..

 

[silent running]

This is good news. I have a small carryon for my camera and lenses that comes in right around 15 lbs. My 2nd carryon is the legal limit size wise, but weighs 40 lbs with my housing, ports, etc..

Hello ronscuba, I went to Ambon last April via Jakarta with Lion Air. I had my rebreather with me in an airline-Singapore Air-regulation size carry-on with wheels, weighed about 30lbs. It was not weighed flying into Ambon, but was weighed outbound back to Jakarta, only cost me about $30 US. This was due to my own stupidity as I got into a conversation with the gate agent about the departure tax and drew more attention to myself, whereby he decided to check the weight of my carry-on.

2 good tips-

If it's on wheels, it never looks heavy.

Keep conversations with gate personel to an absolute minimum.

BTW, which liveaboard are you taking out of Ambon? -Andy

 

[ronscuba]

My carryon has wheels and softsides. It looks like every other wheeled carry on, which is a good thing.

I'm going with Kararu in April as part of the Pan Aqua diveshop group trip. Who did you dive with ?

 

[Allison Finch]

I flew into Sorong with a 42 pound wheeled hard case full of camera equip. I never carry it to the check-in counter. I travel with other photgs and we split up to check in. Half check in while the other half guards the cases far from the counter's eyes. It always works. The worst case scenario is that the bag is nabbed at the gate (a surity with the smaller planes) and it is "gate checked". I never worry here as I know the bag is in the plane and there is no time for pilfering.

We've used this technique on many trips every year and it has worked every time.

 

[silent running]

My carryon has wheels and softsides. It looks like every other wheeled carry on, which is a good thing.

I'm going with Kararu in April as part of the Pan Aqua diveshop group trip. Who did you dive with ?

Myself and 2 other rebreather divers dived with Maluku Divers. They're the only operation on Ambon and they have another operation on Banda as well. They were, great, had good food and the prices were very reasonable, excellent value, excellent diving, even had our own boat.

Ron, do you live in New York? I know there is a Pan Aqua here in Manhattan, sounds like a nice trip. -Andy