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Old Sep 1, 2013 | 4:01 am
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Originally Posted by JIMCHI
That's strange, since the BA website doesn't make any mention of any waiver or any stipulations. It says flat out that the allowance when traveling in Club Europe is 32kg (70 lbs).

http://www.britishairways.com/en-us/...age-allowances
Which is, of course, a BA flight, so the simplified summary is valid for this.

My guess is that the website wording has been simplified/dumbed-down in an analogy to your suggestion below, to make it easier to understand when normal people seek information through the normal channel, whereas the technical position (that interests geeks like me) has not changed because of the complexities incurred in changing it:-
Originally Posted by JIMCHI
So if they waive it, why don't they just print the proper allowance -taking into account their waiver - on their e-tickets ? Seems so very simple to me.
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