Overweight Luggage Enforcement?
Paxing All Over The World
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"You want me to look my best for you, don't you - Or do you no longer care?"
Yesteday, in conversation with the lady with whom I am going on holiday, there was further discussion about luggage. So I playfully pointed out that I could ditch anything of hers that did not fit weight or size in my case. She playfully pointed out that I would be Doing No Such Thing!!!
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From: Exit stage right.
Actually, I am married: However, I like to live out my fantasy life here on PPRuNe. Any attempt by me to limit Mrs TS's checked baggage weight would be met with icy disdain and simply ignored, possibly accompanied by a lose-lose comment such as "You want me to look my best for you, don't you - Or do you no longer care?"
and the only one I can think of is having the credit card ready when you get charged the excess.That would be a really good negotiating training exercise classroom scenario.
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I have now remembered another lady of my acquaintence that, when travelling manages to go ultra-light. I have known her do a long weekend with a small back pack and a week with carry-on case.
She says that, ideally, she would just take a handbag. So that is a refreshing other side of the coin.
She says that, ideally, she would just take a handbag. So that is a refreshing other side of the coin.
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From: The Isle Dordt
My observations of the KLM checkin in Amsterdam is that they are not the strictest. But that's quite irrelevant for you because Delta handles the KLM flights in the USA. I haven't seen someone singled out there, it seems that all Americans make sure their checked bags are of approved weight.
(Standard "procedure" for bags that are 2 kg overweight in Amsterdam is have the passengers remove the excess, generally it's added to the carry-on.)
(Standard "procedure" for bags that are 2 kg overweight in Amsterdam is have the passengers remove the excess, generally it's added to the carry-on.)
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How many airlines weigh hand baggage?
My bag weighs 4 kg. empty.
Allowed to remove a laptop and carry it as a - quote - 'personal item', which promptly got put back in the bag around the corner, along with other things that I had put in my pockets, and which then weighed more than 7Kg in the overhead locker. Maybe 2 - 3 kg overweight isn't a big deal, but if 600 pax on an Airbus Super-Jumbo did the same ?? and they wouldn't even have the correct aircraft weight, tho' "average" pax weights probably takes care of that, but if the "average" also assumes the 7Kg cabin bag allowance, and all bags and pockets are heavier?
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From: In a perambulator.
I am extremely cantankerous and simply refuse to hump any bag around that weighs more than 18kgs. A 25kg suitcase is a serious lump of mass. Baggage handlers don't like those sort of weights and it's amazing how often bags of that weight get damaged or have their handles broken off. If you must travel like a circus elephant then pay the extra and spilt your weight into three bags. That way you'll at least have room to buy some casual trinkets or gold bars en route.
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As far as I was aware, anything over 22/23kgs is tagged as 'Heavy'? A few years ago, a 25kg bag of mine was considered so overweight we had to remove a few items and redistribute.
Frankly I don't want to be lugging anything over 20kg out of a car boot.
Frankly I don't want to be lugging anything over 20kg out of a car boot.
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Since this will doubtless appear shortly in the EZY thread in AA&R, I'll just add it to this thread: EasyJet asks passengers to slim down carry-on bags - News & Advice - Travel - The Independent
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...along with other things that I had put in my pockets...
I used to fly with a nav who never carried an overnight bag everything was in his raincoat pockets.
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Well, apparently they were being strict this week on our return flight from SFO. Two bags, each at about 26 kg. Wife left her carry-on bag at home. And so we were stuck with one overweight bag (after transferring 3 kg from one bag to the other).
Seems somewhat unfair to me. We had two checked bags, each at about 26 kg. Additionally, I had one carry-on bag, weight unknown, but would guess about 5-6 kg. Wife did not have any carry-on beside her purse. We got charged for one overweight bag. If we had had something to put the extra kg into to carry onto the plane, we would not have been charged overweight. And so the charge was not really for the total weight, but just how it was distributed.
Worth writing to KLM about?
Seems somewhat unfair to me. We had two checked bags, each at about 26 kg. Additionally, I had one carry-on bag, weight unknown, but would guess about 5-6 kg. Wife did not have any carry-on beside her purse. We got charged for one overweight bag. If we had had something to put the extra kg into to carry onto the plane, we would not have been charged overweight. And so the charge was not really for the total weight, but just how it was distributed.
Worth writing to KLM about?
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From: Lanzarote/Butuan/Southern Yorkshire
Moral, don't overpack to make your suitcases overweight. Sorry but in the ticket rules and regulations.
Hand baggage is a different matter but also part of the rules, some airlines have weight limits on these too.
Hand baggage is a different matter but also part of the rules, some airlines have weight limits on these too.
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Mrs Hval got a shock the first time she travelled with me. Carry on baggage only. An 8kg limit.
A number of weeks in different African countries where formal wear would be required in some locations, general clothes and bush clothes in others. All that along with some kit I carry that weighs in at 3kg.
A 25 litre snugpak is what I generally use.
I think she has got used to it. She does get a nervous twitch though. Mind you, the type of places I drag her to does that as well.
Which reminds me of the time there were a bunch of really miffed passengers in DAR when we were both escorted to our own aircraft, just for the two of us. I think they were miffed because we were carrying rucksacks and didn't look the part.
A number of weeks in different African countries where formal wear would be required in some locations, general clothes and bush clothes in others. All that along with some kit I carry that weighs in at 3kg.
A 25 litre snugpak is what I generally use.
I think she has got used to it. She does get a nervous twitch though. Mind you, the type of places I drag her to does that as well.
Which reminds me of the time there were a bunch of really miffed passengers in DAR when we were both escorted to our own aircraft, just for the two of us. I think they were miffed because we were carrying rucksacks and didn't look the part.
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I was surprised to find that as BA Gold card holder, I can have 30kg. Just back from the US - going out, the bag was 20.2kg, which was more than heavy enough for me. 30kg would be almost unmanageable....
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Mark, it all depends on your level of pride. I'm sure there was a plastic bag in your luggage, if only the hotel laundry ones (as far as I can see the only use of these is to keep your dirty stuff polluting your clean stuff - does anyone pay £10 for a short to be cleaned?). Get it out, fill with 6 kilos of stuff. This is now your "carry on" bag.
There is no rule that it has to be pretty.
There is no rule that it has to be pretty.
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I think you have to pay for any extra weight that you are going to carry . So if you have more weight than 23 on the balance scale you have to pay for that extra weight.
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It depends on the airline - as always. Wizz require you to keep the case within it's measurements but, as long as it's under 32Kgs, they will take it. So if you pay for a single case in the hold but it can be up to 32Kgs.
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This morning at Abz I checked in (KLM) with a case that weighed 24 kgs and was offered the choice of removing 1kg from the bag or paying GBP60. When I pointed out that on my outbound flights I had paid for 2 cases and had checked in 1 there was a longish phone call from check-in to someone and I wasn“t charged.
If 1kg overweight is going to cost 60 quid then scales calibration has to be challenged.
That said, the flights were great and the CC really excellent.
If 1kg overweight is going to cost 60 quid then scales calibration has to be challenged.
That said, the flights were great and the CC really excellent.
