Originally Posted by
apmav
Thank you for your help! Yes, I was trying to keep my pieces of luggage to the minimum. However, looks like they can get really specific about their rules. Sounds a bit counter-intuitive that they don't prefer a single piece of luggage over 15 kg, instead of two, which will actually increase the overall weight (owing to dead weight of the extra bag itself)
It's not that simple. Any airlines will treat each customer as a single unit (seat,luggage, food, oxygen mask, lifeboat, IFE etc. etc.) By limiting it to 1 piece @ 15 kgs 9W is saving a lot of costs and at the same time making more money from this. Here's (my theory) how: less pieces of luggage to tag, track,manage, deliver or lose therefore less costs, by limiting weight & pieces in J & Y I'm sure 9W is able to negotiate better rates with the luggage handling unions and finally they can charge customers more money because of their restrictive policies!