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Hope you have a great trip. Mongolia sounds like a good destination although by all accounts you come back smelling of mutton and yaks milk from the diet 🙂
Good luck with the flights
Thanks for the offer notmyrealname but I fly tomorrow.
I've just spoke to a mate of mine who's working in T2 today. He's off to try and find the Air China office for you to see if he can get an answer.
Fantastic! .. Thanks 😀
I fly with Qatar mainly because of the generous allowance, 30kg even for economy I think. I used to have the gold card but now down to silver and I could easily take a mountain bike (boxed) with me to Myanmar this year, at zero extra cost! I do try to make sure that I use the international company to book all the way through to final destination, then domestic limits are ignored (i.e. slightly cheaper to book to Bangkok and then another flight to Yangon/Mandalay but booked together the first airline is responsible for any delays and the luggage goes straight through. Taking a fat bike next year 😀
Enjoy your hols/work
I like your style agent007. I'm not sure I'd have the balls for the fishing line trick but I've often stood nonchalantly whilst my 15 kg cabin baggage rucksack strap cheesewires my shoulder 😀
Fill tyres with He?
I am dreading dropping from Plat back to Goldon mine - 70kg Economy Short Haul and about 50kg long haul makes a big difference 🙂
(I was still over coming back from the states with 70Kg 😯 )
I'm not sure I'd have the balls for the fishing line trick but I've often stood nonchalantly whilst my 15 kg cabin baggage rucksack strap cheesewires my shoulder
It does help doing it from the Business/FF checkin line, they are a lot more relaxed up there... Manchester has a nice way to oversized where you can sort it out too. It's all about attitude really 🙂
That's another beauty of Qatar silver; relatively easy to get (two long haul returns a year). Business class check in and lounges and tonnes of weight allowance. Couple of years ago I had to go through with a 13kg sealed lead acid battery for a solar electricity set up. I printed off the international carriage rules and it only took about 45mins to convince all was legit.
Ah, at last! The company that I'm going with have managed to get an answer from Air China - don't know how, but it seems I might get charged up to £95 each way, depending on how much over I am, so I'm happy with that (hopefully) 😀
I've just heard back from my mate at T2.
He spoke to the guys on the check in desk who told him that the 23kg for the checked bag would be allowed for the domestic flight at the other end as long as they were booked together.
They also said that they are very strict with regards the weights and it was 23kg hold luggage and 6kg carry on.
Apparently he couldn't say what the excess charge would be as he didn't know!
It's also worth remembering that a lot of the baggage scales you can buy are pretty inaccurate.
Last time I flew with a bike box my scales said I was at about 27kg but the airport scales showed under 25kg.
notmyrealname, thanks for that, appreciate it.
I'm hoping any excess charges will then be based on the extra weight rather than a fixed charge, I'm likely to only be a few kg over.