Originally Posted by CarolynUK

Nothing to do with lateness but dodgy handbag gage enforcement.

I was visiting my mother in Belfast for the weekend along with my toddler daughter, and I had a not over large bag with our clothes in it (think slightly large briefcase - but not as big as a pilots case). The Jobsworth on the check in desk for our return flight first told me it was too big to allow for hand luggage, and when I pointed out that it had been accepted by her airline for numerous trips including the inbound - she then told me I couldn't have it as it was too heavy - it was just over the allowed 5Kg!

I offered to transfer some items into my daughters hand luggage to reduce the weight to the limit, but no deal - my poor little bag was going into the hold, no matter what case I put forward to her. Sitting watching other passengers board with huge holdalls which were much bigger, and looked to be heavier than the bag I had been forced to check in was highly frustrating.

To add insult to injury, not only did I have to wait for nearly an hour at Heathrow with a tired and fractious toddler for the bag to appear on the carousel, when it did arrive - it was soaked through having obviously sat on top of the luggage wagon in the pouring rain......

And just to further make my night........ As I had a very tired daughter, I decided to spend the extra to take the Heathrow Express (15 minutes) back into the city rather than the 45 minute Underground trip...... Only to fall victim to some sort of problem just outside Paddington which caused the short trip to take longer than the Underground trip would have taken......

It was after midnight when I finally made it home to South East London that night..... Thanks to British Midland airlines...... It was easyjet/ BA/ Go ever after that for us.