Originally Posted by
krug
BUT IT'S NOT ABOUT WEIGHT ITS ABOUT NUMBER OF PIECES CARRIED - SPECIFICALLY THAT THE CUT OFF IS AT OR AROUND THE THRESHOLD MANY OF US WILL MARGINALLY EXCEED ON OUR INBOUND JOURNEY.
This will lead to:
1. Expense of buying another bag
2. Unwieldly luggage (as an F passenger, I would not be able to handly 3 bags on my own, if I wanted to utilise my full allowance)
3. The weight of the additional bag will actually mean more fuel burn for the extra 2-3 kilos just for the bag itself, and no extra excess baggage charges - an obvious own goal for BA.
I understand that for Aussie based fliers such as yourself this is good news, but most of BA's customers do not fly such long trips, and so are perhaps commuting regularly to NYC.
These transatlantic customers are BA's bread and butter; not such a problem if all carriers did the same, but on routes where there is a choice of this bizarre buy an extra bag and lug it around policy and the more normal 30-32kg per bag policy, I am afraid I would vote with my feet onto VS.
^ ^ ^ This is absolutely spot on. I have not been faced with a 23Kg baggage allowance on a longhaul trip for over 10 years (I don't fly Y on such trips). Now all of a sudden if I want to travel with BA in F or J I need to take 2 cases. My main Samsonite suitcase for longhaul trips weighs almost 9kg when empty. That leaves me some 14 Kg for actual lugggage. Since most of us do not actually have adequate suitcase weighing capability at home, I strongly suspect the case weight will cause huge issues if there is 0% leeway for marginal overweight cases.
If there is ANY risk of having to buy another bag and re-pack at check in then I would rather take another airline, where I know I will not have the same problem. It is that simple.