Originally Posted by
petit_manchot
Bit confused by your complaint about people having too many bags at check in. From the UK EK uses the weight concept, so it doesn’t matter if you have more than one piece.
The OP has mentioned he was talking about hand luggage so not directly related to his account, but I think this statement is wrong. Travelling to/from GIG (Rio de Janeiro) the piece concept is used, so we really can't say if they were in the wrong or not.
https://www.emirates.com/english/bef...d-baggage.aspx