Originally Posted by
ryan182
20 pounds, so it was consistent with OW and pretty much every other major US airline. I too was shocked earlier this year on a flight to LAX where I was connecting on an AA flight on separate ticket with dive gear and camera equipment and fully expected 70lbs (OW Emerald, also paid F) when the check in agent told me my bad was overweight (it was ~62lbs) and I even argued with her because as a OWE having 70lbs baggage allowance is consistent and thought that she was just uninformed due to the recent addition of AS to OW.
Don't know about your camera equipment, but at least for your dive gear, according to
https://www.alaskaair.com/content/tr...ting-equipment, you should have received a waiver as long as there wasn't anything unrelated to the equipment also in the bag. In particular, it explicitly states, "We’re glad to waive the oversize fee or overweight fee for the items listed in this section". And "Scuba Equipment" is explicitly listed in that section.