Dave is right, I am talking about allowing elites to have an overage. If my first post was not clear, then I am clarifying it now.

I definitely believe that airlines should be able to have whatever baggage policy they want to have. However I also think that airline alliances should offer added benefits for elite members so that traveling on multi-carrier itineraries, which is the point of forming an alliance anyway, is simple and seamless.

How is it any less seamless as it is? If there was additional allowance there would still be an issue since the "standard" allowance would be 60Kg for 1st for someone with status but the 1st flight would still have the issue of there being only 50Kg and there would still be issues of not being able to check 60Kg in on the 1st flight.

Whether the allowance is 30Kg and then 40Kg vs 50 Kg and 60Kg there are no seams being removed by increasing the baggage allowance

If that is the case then your first post definitely does not represent your intention. You refer to having to pay additional for being overweight on CX even though you are BA Silver. If your travel had been on a *A carrier then you would have had the *G additional benefit in play:The only *A specific policy for elites is the mentioned additional piece or weight for *G. That's it.

Moreover, *A does not have a uniform baggage policy; travel on differing *A airlines in differing classes can have various free/paid allocations. The *G benefit is additional to these varied policies.

Forgetting alliances, different airlines have varied policies for baggage. For example, one frequent facet is the ability to have the highest available allowance of the segment on the one ticket. Same refine this further and allow this for connecting flights only - but none of that is alliance related.

To summarise - *A allow *G to have additional free checked luggage over a individual segment/journey whenever travelling on *A carriers. The actual free allowance can still vary between the *A airlines.

*O have no such facility.

In all cases the basic free limit can vary with differing airline policies; this is not an Alliance issue.

Absolutely. That is what I was alluding to. The OP originally was wanting a "uniform baggage policy" and was also later talking about a "seamless and simple" situation with Star

There is nothing that makes the Star policy any more seamless or simple or any more uniform than One World. The reality to me is that the OP doesn't want simplicity , just to be able to take extra for free

I would be surprised to see OW offer a uniform allowance across all cariers and I would not like to see that since would likely lose the benefits such as being able to take 3x32 Kg on BA ; also I cannot see why OW would want to offer a benefit which has a direct money loss to the carriers ; other benefits generally have a low cost to provide whilst allowing 10Kg could be a loss of $400 of revenue to an airline

Dave

I'm going to agree with Dave Noble on this one.

Extra luggage is a perk I hardly ever use. Most serious travellers pack with what they need and don't take the kitchen sink with them. If you are doing a big presentation, it's usually better that you send the equipment separately anyhow via courier as it saves lugging things to the airport.

My biggest concern is that we would loose the benefits that we do have in OW in exchange for gaining an extra 10kg luggage allowance.