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Ditto
FWIW last week I helped some family members to checkin to an ET flight in CPT, they were very strict about hold luggage weight, 23.8KG was not acceptable even though all other suitcases were way below 20KG, from what I could see, many other people had to reshuffle their luggage as well.
That does seem very odd to me, never had anything like that on ET. Actually I find them extremely accommodating compared to other airliners in this regard. Did your family members have any Star Alliance status? Flying in Y?
I was actually of the impression that airliners usually accept +/- 2kg within the limit of each bag. Or maybe this is only on TK and I just assumed it was the same on all airliners?
I managed to multiple times the past months check in bags that were 25-26 kg each at a 23kg allowance (and the total kg more than I was allowed) and they accepted. But I guess it helps when you are *G.