Just came home to Sweden from the Philppines yesterday.
Yes I had a lot of gear
but they are so anal about it now a days.
They weigh everything even the carry on and refused one bag because it was to big.
The little lady from Malaysia Airlines took out her calculator and told me that I just had to pay the small sum of 2780 USD for overweight.
That was not a option. Had a mate come to the airport and half of my stuff is still in Manila and I had to cough up almost 900USD to just get the most vital gear home so I at least can get in the water......
Im not without sin as I had to much stuff but I have never had this much problems on my +25 flights with gear all over the world.
Some one said that the fuel is now so expensive so the airlines try to cut their losses by charging full out for overweight.
Before it was more like "thats a bit much but if you pay for 5kg overweight we dont care about the other 10" sort of.
Cheers
Rodge