Originally Posted by
irishguy28
Not really.
Combining the two items in this manner to obtain a 29kg "bag" means it falls outside the normal allowance for any one bag(23kg), so it would be treated exceptionally, as one overweight item. Even without any other checked bag, this 29kg "bag" falls outside of all published allowances, and would be charged separately. (So this really tells us nothing about whether the inherent 2*23kg per passenger on connecting US-India tickets was used at all. Though, of course, if the full checked luggage allowance had not been used, then of course, the "hand luggage" could have been accepted without any issue, and the "need" to combine two items into one would not arise. I assume that the full checked in allowance was used - but the OP hasn't addressed this explicitly).
Ok, understand what you're getting at.
I'm fine if it isn't BA policy to proactively check in hand bags (b/c of the higher weight limit that they have) and therefore the charges were warranted. It would be nice if they posted that on their website beforehand, b/c most other airlines do it differently, in my experience.