Originally Posted by
TRANSWORLDMARINE
Since, you think you are so smart, why don't you Google Emirates Gold Benefits: Gold Extra Allowance= 1 Additional Piece of checked Baggage of 23 K.G./50 lbs.
Your bag was overweight (according to your post). So, you could have split it into another bag and probably been OK. But assuming you only had a single bag with you, then Emirates were correct to not allow you to check the overweight peice.