Originally Posted by sadiqhassan
My bags are ALWAYS overweight... lol on American Airlines, i have only been charged in Miami. In other cities, its not even weighed. On most airlines I get a 10-15kg grace. An exception is Air Canada. If you bag weighs 32.000001kg they will charge you.
32.000001kg will be rounded to 32kg.
Less than 32.05kg will be rounded and indicated as 32.0kg.
Originally Posted by silver springer
Here is my question: I used the same 29 inch wheeled duffle to go on other long trips on United recently (China and Thailand). My bag said "heavy" on it but United never charged me. Is this just an Aloha way to raise revenues or do airlines regularly charge for excess weight (I think I was 6 pounds over).
The orange heavy tag doesn't necessarily mean that it's over 32kg.
It will be affixed upon agent's discretion.
Originally Posted by exerda
US did waive an overweight fee for me once when their scales were slightly off (agent claimed my bag was 57 lbs; it weighed at 50 and 49 in NAS and MHH). It wouldn't have mattered if UP had gotten me to PBI like they were supposed to instead of screwing up my entire itinerary and dumping me into MIA so I had to take ground transit and recheck bags. I argued after taking as much out and into my carryon as I could that there was no way it still weighed 55 lbs, and they waived the fee. DL also waived a fee for me in PBI once.
I was never charged for excess baggage on UA.
I've always had international tickets, except once with a domestic ticket.
On domestic flights with interntional tickets, I often had over 50lbs and sometimes over 70lbs.
But no one cared about it.
The only time I was told that I had over weight baggage by UA agent, was at ORD with that domestic ticket, which was the only domestic UA ticket in my life.
At other airports on that itinerary, no agent interfered for baggage weight.
So I said to UA agent at ORD that other UA stations don't concern about baggage weight.
Her answer was UA-ORD enforces rules strictly due to heavy operations.