Overweight baggage charges.

[planedriver]

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[spacesailor]

Sorry this content is not available noe . ( no facebook account )

Please enlighten. As to what has happened. 

spacesailor

[onetrack]

The link is to a Private Facebook group, you need to apply to join the group, and if the admin of the group approves you, only then can you see what is on the group site.

[planedriver]

Hardly worthwhile, might as well delete post.

Sorry about that.

Rgds planey

[Arron25]

18 hours ago, planedriver said:

 

[facthunter]

Then put your luggage outside with it's OWN wings. Why should others subsidise your excess baggage and your obesity.  The plane is weight limited.  It's called PAYload. Nev

[spacesailor]

Yes

we pay

& pay again .

spacesailor

[Underwood]

I honestly get embarrassed by the behaviour of mankind in the 21st century

[facthunter]

spacey, you don't pay and Pay again unless your luggage weight is above a certain figure.  and sometimes even fuel is  loaded at a more limiting figure to permit the operation. It still has to meet the legal reserves so ACTUAL weight is often a limiting factor in taking off and ranging as well.. You use fuel to carry fuel. IF you're heavy you can't make a high cruising level till later in the flight so you then burn more fuel.  Cargo is Cargo even the self-loading kind and more dangerous than the  inert stuff.  Them's the facts. Who do you think should pay for YOUR excess baggage? A lighter plane will use significantly LESS fuel on any sector than a Max weight one. Nev

[spacesailor]

We weigh our bags on different scales , just to be safe .

Then the airport weighs on their scales,

& we are over their limit, and have to pay a surcharge .

Four bags with three as we weighed them & one bag a whole kilogram over .

NOT just me , A number of passengers have said the same .

spacesailor

[planedriver]

This to allow passengers to be warm when they travel, by unpacking their case and then wearing 6 jumpers and a warm winter coat to make it all good 😜

[spacesailor]

We didn't have that bag returned ,

Just the penalty .   Extra payment.

spacesailor

[facthunter]

I'm too depressed to continue this. . Nev

[onetrack]

I'd never get that close to the limit with baggage today. I learnt my lesson about 20-odd years ago, I packed a set of car coil springs in my bag and got overweight, so I had to repack my bag, and transfer weight to my partners bag, in the airport. They probably wouldn't allow that today. Besides, I've now learned how to travel light, and buy what I find I need when I get there.

[Red]

The amount of crap most airline travelers take with them for a week away is ridiculous.

 

[facthunter]

That's true. It's a SKILL to only take what you need that many don't posses.. Nev

[spacesailor]

" A week " .

7 pairs knickers, vests,  blouses.  Ect.,

And the same for me .

I would never be forgiven, if I only took three undies , normal,  reversed,  inside out . Missing .

spacesailor 

[Arron25]

11 hours ago, spacesailor said:

" A week " .

7

I normally pack (number of days) +1 to allow for the 'oops' factor