Advance Warning - British Airways - Maximum Permitted Baggage Weight
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Isn't 32 kg the per-bag limit on piece count bags already? If so, picking that would standardise the limit.
Also 32 kg = 70 lbs, give or take a fraction. 70 seems like a nice round number to me. And probably also to those across the way who have never heard of the metric system.
Also 32 kg = 70 lbs, give or take a fraction. 70 seems like a nice round number to me. And probably also to those across the way who have never heard of the metric system.
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I beleive that QF and CX have been opearting this policy for some time. I had to "decant" some items into another bag when checking in at Taipei for a First Class sector in April 2001.
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Seems only fair to me, somebody somewhere has to lift it!
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The rule is overdue and is fair enough. 32 Kg is apprently put so as not to interfere with the US/Canada "piece concept" rules , But I really hope they publicise it well enough and maybe even press for global standardiation .
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rsoman: "publicise it well enough and maybe even press for global standardiation."
I am glad that you added the maybe as I expect to see hell freezing over first. I really do HOPE that we can get standardisation but for as long as any carrier perceives a commercial advantage ...
I am glad that you added the maybe as I expect to see hell freezing over first. I really do HOPE that we can get standardisation but for as long as any carrier perceives a commercial advantage ...
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I agree
This is an industry where accident compensation laws has as a basis a law signed in 1929! and air service agreements are in many countriees still based on bilaterals which appear to be state secrets!
This is an industry where accident compensation laws has as a basis a law signed in 1929! and air service agreements are in many countriees still based on bilaterals which appear to be state secrets!
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Aer Lingus have put up a big sign in dublin departures about these new weight restrictions.
Oh and ps bealine the 146 bins near the wing is why I try and sit at the back cos I can giggle at businessmen trying to fit things in.
It's not so much the cabin crew bringing the bag on.. it's that the size they're allowed doesn't match what we're allowed.
I KNOW a Travelpro Crew 4 will fit in a bin with plenty left over (except the above mentioned 146 or even worse on a Jetstream 41) .
Anyway it's just a rant. don't treat it too seriously.
Oh and ps bealine the 146 bins near the wing is why I try and sit at the back cos I can giggle at businessmen trying to fit things in.
It's not so much the cabin crew bringing the bag on.. it's that the size they're allowed doesn't match what we're allowed.
I KNOW a Travelpro Crew 4 will fit in a bin with plenty left over (except the above mentioned 146 or even worse on a Jetstream 41) .
Anyway it's just a rant. don't treat it too seriously.
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Crew using space for their own luggage? Next, they'll be using the toilets. 
I'm off to patent a roofrack for the 737. Might give Paddy Hopkirk a call...
I'm off to patent a roofrack for the 737. Might give Paddy Hopkirk a call...
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The most annoying aspect of airline cabin baggage policy is that it is applied inconsistently.
TG, for instance, allow any item that fits into the standard test frame into the cabin (one per pax). This policy is uniformly applied throughout the network.
However, it seems that this reasonable policy is deliberately being torpedoed by check-in staff employed by other airlines acting as handling agents at some airports, notably Melbourne, who feel it is their duty to enforce their (in this case, QF's) cabin baggage rules on passengers who (obviously with good reason) avoid using Qantas to travel to and from Australia.
I watched some check-in Nazi subject the traveller in front of me to a most bizzare procedure some weeks ago. The poor guy (a business traveller) was forced to unload all his personal belongings (underwear, toilet bag, a pair of shoes, some food) from an "overnighter" in order to bring it down to around 7 kgs. The problem was that his laptop and the overnighter together still weighed more than 7 kgs and he was rightly unwilling to check his laptop into the hold. What made this all the more ridiculous was that QF - despite their jihad on heavy cabin baggage - are unable to offer any suitable packing for the very objects they force people to check in. No cardboard boxes - only cheap and unsuitable "amah bags".
Oh, and of course the passengers in transit from Sydney were all laden with huge amounts of cabin baggage and duty free bags......
TG, for instance, allow any item that fits into the standard test frame into the cabin (one per pax). This policy is uniformly applied throughout the network.
However, it seems that this reasonable policy is deliberately being torpedoed by check-in staff employed by other airlines acting as handling agents at some airports, notably Melbourne, who feel it is their duty to enforce their (in this case, QF's) cabin baggage rules on passengers who (obviously with good reason) avoid using Qantas to travel to and from Australia.
I watched some check-in Nazi subject the traveller in front of me to a most bizzare procedure some weeks ago. The poor guy (a business traveller) was forced to unload all his personal belongings (underwear, toilet bag, a pair of shoes, some food) from an "overnighter" in order to bring it down to around 7 kgs. The problem was that his laptop and the overnighter together still weighed more than 7 kgs and he was rightly unwilling to check his laptop into the hold. What made this all the more ridiculous was that QF - despite their jihad on heavy cabin baggage - are unable to offer any suitable packing for the very objects they force people to check in. No cardboard boxes - only cheap and unsuitable "amah bags".
Oh, and of course the passengers in transit from Sydney were all laden with huge amounts of cabin baggage and duty free bags......
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Oh, and of course the passengers in transit from Sydney were all laden with huge amounts of cabin baggage and duty free bags......
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Reminds me of an interesting inident at the gate at Kuualalumpur airport for the MH flight to Chennai. A couple of very efficient gate staff were intercepting all these heavily laden transit pax with excess cabbin baggage from SIN et all and despatching into the hold. Some passengers who tired to demonstrate how "light" the bags were asked (in mime) if they plan to carry it on their head!!!
Oh, and of course the passengers in transit from Sydney were all laden with huge amounts of cabin baggage and duty free bags......
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Reminds me of an interesting inident at the gate at Kuualalumpur airport for the MH flight to Chennai. A couple of very efficient gate staff were intercepting all these heavily laden transit pax with excess cabbin baggage from SIN et all and despatching into the hold. Some passengers who tired to demonstrate how "light" the bags were asked (in mime) if they plan to carry it on their head!!!
