EEEKS BA will NOT take bags over 23kg from Sep

schford

Regardless of class of travel - the Max weight of luggage from September is going to be 23kg!!! on BA....

Transporting the Rebreather is gonna be fun - not.....

Hope Virgin do not follow suit.

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PCDiver

Is that per bag or in total?

schford

Max weight of 23kg for a BAG. You can have multiple bags depending on class.

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paulraymaekers

I think it is already so: flying to sydney next week with BA: max bag 23 kg..

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Mark Chase

No this is in force NOW

Friends are off to Gozo in April on BA and its Max 23Kg They have been through hell trying to get their CCRs on the plane. I am told its now sorted but they still haven't had it confirmed in writing.

They spoke to BA who said a special note had been added to their file. Then they spoke to them again the next week and the new person the spoke to said there was nothing on the file.

Do not trust BA you must get it in writing. They will refuse and you do have to fight.


Pete asked to talk to the complaints department and was told they don't have one ??????? BA has no complaints department? Thats one way of dealing with customer complaints, just tell them to sod off

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iratnl

Vote with your feet - try and fly with another airline

PhilSiswick

British Airways - Checked baggage

There is some comment about sporting items being excluded - might be worth trying to pull that string. BA have always been very focussed on the business traveller - this is just a sign of that.

I'd suggest that, if you don't have to, don't fly BA. Much as I like them (and feel like I've spent a very large chunk of my life on one of their planes), I don't think much of this policy at all.

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sadave

Guys, with no personal experience of BA, this has been in the cards for a long time. And some if it is directly my fault.

For years the IATA standard has been max 32kg per bag. This has NOTHING to do with baggage allowances, excess baggage, etc etc etc... this is purely the maximum total weight that a baggage handler was allowed to lift.

This is NOWHERE NEAR in line with any other industry. My old man, at Telstra (think, whatever the national telecomunications company is in your neck of the woods) wasn't allowed to lift anything over 21kg, EVER without someone to assist, or a machine (forklift, sacktruck, whatever) to do it for him.

I used to be a baggage handler. I ****ed my back by continuously, repetitively, handling bags up to 32kg. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't a scrawny little shit, I could HAPPILY walk around, with a 32kg bag in EACH hand, without raising a sweat, no problems. Till my back decided it didn't like me any more.

I stopped working Dec 19th 2004. Feb 12th 2005 I was told by a specialist that I would be in a wheelchair within 6 months. Thankfully I'm still walking, I have good days and bad days, but thats the way it goes.

I'm sorry, but this rule had to come in, sooner or later. As long as everyone wants cheaper air-fares, the airlines aren't going to roster extra staff, to make every 20kg+ bag a "two-person lift"... In a 30min turnaround, there isn't the time to get 2 blokes in the hold to stack every heavy bag. It just isn't practical.

We'd rather you had 5 10kg bags, than 1 30kg bag...

As I said before, this is NOTHING to do with excess / baggage allowances, etc etc etc... this is purely for the sake of the poor guys like me, and our backs.

The $$$$ values for excess baggage haven't changed. You just have to re-pack everything into smaller / lighter bags.



Just think, as you struggle to lift that dive tub into the car. You grunt and groan, and get it there, and think "glad I only have to do that once"... think of the poor blokes who have to do that to 250+ bags per flight!


/rant off. sorry guys, in one of them moods.

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The new rules will not be enforced until September or so I was told...

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Pete was told thay had made a note on his file

He flies in April M8 and they are insisting on it for him right now.



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