AW: airplane baggage

["Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>]

usually, the clerks at check-in have a "being nice" range over the official
limit in which they can decide to charge you or not, and which is also 
based
on the total load of the flight in question. So if you're on a flight which
is not completely booked out and you behave nicely, you usually get away
with a little excess baggage

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Per Boysen [mailto:perboysen@gmail.com] 
> Gesendet: Samstag, 22. April 2006 19:04
> An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Betreff: Re: airplane baggage
> 
> On 22 apr 2006, at 18.47, mech wrote:
> 
> > The airlines have evidently decided very recently that charging for 
> > overweight and excess baggage can be a new revenue stream for them.
> > And they've all pretty much fallen lockstep into the same 
> pattern at 
> > pretty much the same time too, from what I've just seen.
> 
> 
> And it may also differ from airport to airport, how well they 
> follow the regulations. When I flew from Stockholm to Zürich 
> the Swedish airport staff just smiled and told me "no 
> problem, you're fine with that trunk", but when I was going 
> the other way the staff in Zürich hit me with a USD 65 
> overweight fee for the very same suitcase.
> 
> Greetings from Sweden
> 
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast)
> 
> 
> 
> 
>