Originally Posted by
lazy_flyer
Thanks Dave. I'm sure it makes sense to the airlines themselves, I guess my issue is around why CX gets to determine whether his bag will go for free on a BA flight. And why BA should accept CX doing that.
Airlines in general accept the judgment of the other airline when checking bags through and usually honour the baggage allowance of the first airline on that itinerary. Otherwise they would need to pull all bags out at the connection point, make sure they match them to the owner, compare it to their allowance and then charge the pax before boarding. Way to complicated therefore much easier to just go with the first airlines allowance.
Originally Posted by
IC6A
Dave BA and QF should pay you as executive defense lawyer on board. Your view does not present most of flyers on this forum.
Dave just states the truth hence he should speak for the majority of the forum. Yes, maybe we would like to have things differently but the situation is what it is, BA had the right to charge for the bag and the OP needs to check the rules.
That the rules might be strange, not customer friendly etc is a different debate.