46kg of carry on?
Jun 6, 2019, 10:07 am
#16
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Here's my creative contribution for the day ...
A pre-WWI Singer sewing machine (needle missing) with a full (not hollow) cast iron arm, needle plate and "portable" wooden base, clocks in at 19 kg. With packaging foam and a few towels I added for additional padding to the fragile bits, my duffle clocked in at just under 21 kg for one bag.
It's also possible to fill a carry on roll-aboard with 24 kg of baking chocolate from Brussels, Bruges, etc...
A pre-WWI Singer sewing machine (needle missing) with a full (not hollow) cast iron arm, needle plate and "portable" wooden base, clocks in at 19 kg. With packaging foam and a few towels I added for additional padding to the fragile bits, my duffle clocked in at just under 21 kg for one bag.
It's also possible to fill a carry on roll-aboard with 24 kg of baking chocolate from Brussels, Bruges, etc...
Jun 6, 2019, 10:33 am
#17
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I'd never realised that either could weigh 23kg. What I do think is that the person bringing their hand luggage aboard must be able to get it in the overhead locker themselves. It's not fair to rely on other passengers to do so, and I do not see why crew member should not refuse if they are concerned about back injury.
Jun 6, 2019, 10:46 am
#19
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This!
I always struggle with airlines that give a 5kg or 7kg allowance. Especially when one of my lenses weighs nearly 5kg alone
I have to admit, the hand luggage allowance is one of the positives about BA and something I'm grateful for.
I always struggle with airlines that give a 5kg or 7kg allowance. Especially when one of my lenses weighs nearly 5kg alone
I have to admit, the hand luggage allowance is one of the positives about BA and something I'm grateful for.
Jun 6, 2019, 10:57 am
#20
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Travelling with a case of 200 x 7” vinyl records can weigh up to 21kg and always has to be opened at security for the same reason as books (too dense).
Handily the case itself fits neatly into the luggage sizer
Handily the case itself fits neatly into the luggage sizer
Jun 6, 2019, 11:39 am
#24
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I've got a query with how the hand luggage weight limits are applied once you've commenced your journey, where your flights are on two carriers.
I'm flying LHR - SIN - BNE on Dec 26th. Flying in F on BA015 so have the allowance of 2 hand luggage bags up to 23kg each, which I don't suppose I'll get anywhere near. However I'm then flying from Singapore to Brisbane on QF052/BA7455, where it states I can still take 2 bags but only up to 7kg each.
Given that I'll already been checked in at LHR and it's a through ticket, are they likely to weigh my hand luggage bags at any stage? I know security screening is done at the gate in Singapore. But I don't remember them weighing bags, just screening them.
This is my "emigration" flight to Australia, so my hand luggage is likely to be pretty full and I was anticipating enjoying BA's very generous weight allowance, now I'm worried about the flight with Qantas - can anyone shed any light on the likelihood of my having an issue
I'm flying LHR - SIN - BNE on Dec 26th. Flying in F on BA015 so have the allowance of 2 hand luggage bags up to 23kg each, which I don't suppose I'll get anywhere near. However I'm then flying from Singapore to Brisbane on QF052/BA7455, where it states I can still take 2 bags but only up to 7kg each.
Given that I'll already been checked in at LHR and it's a through ticket, are they likely to weigh my hand luggage bags at any stage? I know security screening is done at the gate in Singapore. But I don't remember them weighing bags, just screening them.
This is my "emigration" flight to Australia, so my hand luggage is likely to be pretty full and I was anticipating enjoying BA's very generous weight allowance, now I'm worried about the flight with Qantas - can anyone shed any light on the likelihood of my having an issue
Jun 6, 2019, 2:35 pm
#26
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I've got a query with how the hand luggage weight limits are applied once you've commenced your journey, where your flights are on two carriers.
I'm flying LHR - SIN - BNE on Dec 26th. Flying in F on BA015 so have the allowance of 2 hand luggage bags up to 23kg each, which I don't suppose I'll get anywhere near. However I'm then flying from Singapore to Brisbane on QF052/BA7455, where it states I can still take 2 bags but only up to 7kg each.
Given that I'll already been checked in at LHR and it's a through ticket, are they likely to weigh my hand luggage bags at any stage? I know security screening is done at the gate in Singapore. But I don't remember them weighing bags, just screening them.
This is my "emigration" flight to Australia, so my hand luggage is likely to be pretty full and I was anticipating enjoying BA's very generous weight allowance, now I'm worried about the flight with Qantas - can anyone shed any light on the likelihood of my having an issue
I'm flying LHR - SIN - BNE on Dec 26th. Flying in F on BA015 so have the allowance of 2 hand luggage bags up to 23kg each, which I don't suppose I'll get anywhere near. However I'm then flying from Singapore to Brisbane on QF052/BA7455, where it states I can still take 2 bags but only up to 7kg each.
Given that I'll already been checked in at LHR and it's a through ticket, are they likely to weigh my hand luggage bags at any stage? I know security screening is done at the gate in Singapore. But I don't remember them weighing bags, just screening them.
This is my "emigration" flight to Australia, so my hand luggage is likely to be pretty full and I was anticipating enjoying BA's very generous weight allowance, now I'm worried about the flight with Qantas - can anyone shed any light on the likelihood of my having an issue
Jun 6, 2019, 2:47 pm
#27
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This is something that has worried me for a long time. You see in overhead lockers a plate with a weight limit, and you also see large rollaboards going into the lockers.
I have not read of anyone ever being hit by collapsing lockers in an emergency / flying hand luggage so assume it’s all fine and somebody somewhere has really thought about it. Post events such as Grenfell though it does make you wonder!
easyjet limit their aircraft to 70 items i believe.
On a slightly related note, I believe takeoff performance data is based on assumed weight of customers and their luggage. I’ve often idly wondered whether flights to / from certain destinations are likely to have a high number of customers over the assumed weight. Again, I guess in the grand scheme of things it makes no difference...but a densified A321 going out of somewhere hot and high totally full with 100kg passengers each carrying 46kg of hand luggage would be totally within procedures as I understand it!
I have not read of anyone ever being hit by collapsing lockers in an emergency / flying hand luggage so assume it’s all fine and somebody somewhere has really thought about it. Post events such as Grenfell though it does make you wonder!
easyjet limit their aircraft to 70 items i believe.
On a slightly related note, I believe takeoff performance data is based on assumed weight of customers and their luggage. I’ve often idly wondered whether flights to / from certain destinations are likely to have a high number of customers over the assumed weight. Again, I guess in the grand scheme of things it makes no difference...but a densified A321 going out of somewhere hot and high totally full with 100kg passengers each carrying 46kg of hand luggage would be totally within procedures as I understand it!
Jun 6, 2019, 3:46 pm
#28
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Fingers crossed that BA doesn't decide to sell tickets to the next Fast Food and Photography Conference in La Paz...
Jun 6, 2019, 3:57 pm
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Jun 6, 2019, 4:55 pm
#30
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Guilty as charged! My very first BA flight (over 25 years ago), I was a grad student and packed a canvas duffle and a backpack to max allowable weight with books. The security guy at the x-ray asked me if I was smuggling books. The cabin crew had a laugh (one guy even called me a "silly bugger" because I was struggling to go up the stairs to the upper deck with something like 90lbs) and checked the duffle for me. All in jest, but you get the picture.Oh, back then they had economy on the upper deck. The horror! The inhumanity!! The travails of all the C and F passengers, and the indignity of having to sit below some Y butts
Total of 85kg hauled over on my own... couldn't do it now and still surprised I managed to do it then!