Complaint: Check-in / Boarding extra $90 baggage charge
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Old May 28, 2013, 2:55 PM
jimworcs jimworcs is offline
 
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Fair enough if they set a limit and stuck to it. some European airlines do this. However, the bag doesn't become safer because you have paid excessuve fees for it. if health and safety is the issue, set a rigid, maximum weight per bag and require them to use two bags if they go over the limit. The health and safety card is played too much, even if there is a is valid point to be made. it becomes a fall back position, much like "security", and is often bogus. I think BA set a
rigid 23kg limit, which is fair enough. (I might be wrong about this, but I think that is the case).