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Doesn't it piss you off when you get charged overage on your bags, but the 600 pound gorrilla in front of you pays the same for his seat as you?? >At 5:12 PM +0200 4/22/06, Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill wrote: >> > Is this TRUE?? WTF?? What not in the cargo? Blimey, we used >>> to go on tour with basses and guitars and racks and just pay >>> a little excess baggage.. SO for me to play at a LoopStock on >>> the west coast I would bring what? an edp and a Banjo??/ >> >>As I have flown hundreds of upper-class limousines to another continent, >I'd >>say no, it's not true. But for playing Y2K6, I'll bring a laptop, a >>faderbox, an audio/MIDI interface and a foot controller and hope that >>someone has a keyboard and a string instrument to spare ;) > >Yeah, it would probably be best to err on the side of caution. 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. > >Our whole family flew across the country out to Seattle last month. >We figured it would be easier all around to have one larger bag for >three people, rather than lots of smaller ones. Our one large bag >weighed in at ~65 pounds, and we got charged a fee at the airport >for that single bag being overweight. This was despite the fact >that we could have been within our rights to take along three bags >apiece, each weighing 50 pounds. That would have been a total of >450 pounds in luggage. It looked like several people were getting >hit with this, though, and no amount of arguing could get the >airline to waive the fee, either. > >We flew Southwest (urgh!) this time, but a quick survey of the other >airlines showed that they all seemed to be implementing similar >charges as of March. > >Oh, and in case you didn't catch it above, it looks like the max bag >weight has now been lowered from 70 to 50 pounds per bag. Another >hidden charge with which air carriers can gouge their customers, so >watch the weight on those racks. :P > > --m. > >-- >_______ >"Snakes, as the great philosophers used to say, on a motherfucking >plane...." -- ... http://www.zmix.net