Originally Posted by kiwiandrew
that must be absolute hell - if you don't mind me being incredibly nosy what sort of job do you have that requires you to lug all that around on a trip ?
Oh no that's just for personal travel
By the time you count my ski equipment, outdoors stuff, piles of paper, bottles of duty free liquor (with the accompanying wrapping) as well as the usual stuff people take you’ve got around 5 piece (I’ve even been known to check a laser printer in with my stuff).
On a side point was at TUO once a few weeks ago when someone was trying to check in a television – but didn’t want to pay the excess charges.
Originally Posted by Reason077
What is IMO quite unreasonable is the 20kg total limit for Tasman and domestic flights. The substantial ill-will this generates, especially among international travelers who are surprised by it when they are hit with extra fees at the airport, must surely ultimately cost NZ more than the negligible revenue that the overweight fees generate.
I don’t think the 20kg limit is unreasonable – when they started enforcing it I’m sure the total weight of baggage went down as the word got out and people didn’t want to have to pay excess. The cost savings associated with that are not negligible, I can assure you.
What is unreasonable IMHO is agents who don’t know that Gold are entitled to an extra 20kg of luggage or agents that charge fare-paying Business Class passengers for excess luggage.