Star Alliance Baggage Allowance?
I recently achieved Premier status in United's Mileage Plus program, and bought a ticket from them for a flight to Budapest from SFO on flights operated by Lufthansa. Premier status lets you check two bags for free,and is supposed to be equivalent to Star Alliance Silver.
On the Lufthansa website, their explanation of Star Alliance Gold privileges says you can check three pieces of luggage instead of two, which led me to think that Silver allowed two pieces.
But when I got to the airport, they charged me $50 for my second bag.
Anyone else have experience with this? Did I get ripped off, or are the airlines just making it really, really hard to understand these kinds of partner benefits?