Baggage Alowance
As someone who hung up his airport ID a few years ago (and is now badly out of touch), what is the current situation on airlines strictly applying checked and hand baggage weight limits?
I know that in my days the check-in staff usually applied a bit of discretion and often allowed an extra kilo or two through free of charge. Word I'm getting now from former colleagues is that the limits are now much more rigorously applied and some carriers are actually rewarding staff for collecting excess baggage charges.
Reason for the question is that I'm soon off to the Far East for 5 weeks and would like to stretch my CX allowance of 20 kilos checked and 7 kilos hand baggage as far as I can !