flyerkit

I have used many QR flights as BA GoldGuestList / OWE without problems, assuming QR was similar to BA for hand baggage.
I just fell foul of the QR baggage rules on a ICN-DOH flight - but managed to argue my way on.
BA carry-on allowances are generous and practical: Hand luggage must not exceed 56cm x 45cm x 25cm and 23kg per bag.
QR business are similar to Ryanair: Max dimensions are 50x37x25cm (20x15x10in) and 7kg/bag (poss 15kg if 1 bag in business).
Probably not bad for a confident road-warrior - but I just had to advise my family taking a QR flight to travel with small bags after this
experience...

Has anybody else had similar problems - or do QR normally turn a blind eye to bags in business class?

nilsfr69

Stopover in DOH. Went shopping in Doha, came through C/I in Hamad and just for fun weighted my hand luggage at their C/I desk = 14 kg
His response: " Oh... I have not seen that... go on..."

Phil the Flyer

sparoiler

Per QR webpage...
"First Class and Business Class customers are allowed to carry two pieces of baggage on board, not to exceed a total weight of 15kg (33lb)"

Not sure what they enforce...that if traveling business with only one bag that it can be the total weight of 33lbs or if traveling with just one bag it can only be 15lbs. 33lbs is a lot to cram into one carry on. I know that when we were traveling back from HKT-DOH-ORD, at HKT we had issues because we had multiple carry on bags and we exceeded both the weight limits and bag allowance. Travel with a lot of camera equipment, only going to get worse since we started vlogging recently=more equipment, and dry goods (snacks etc to cut costs when traveling/have some of our own US food when at hotel/resorts) and one was our overnight bag in DOH since our luggage was checked all the way through to ORD. At the check in counter the rep contacted a supervisor and we had to explain that we needed the additional carry on for our overnight stuff and we could not put it in one of our other carry on's as those were already at the limits, and there is no way I am checking a soft sided bag that has all Canon equipment in it. We were extremely happy we were able to get through. Hoping for the same in March 2019.

flyerkit

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HLCinCOU

Emirates has an even more restrictive policy; 7kg/bag for two bags, but no option for one heavier bag, even in business. I showed up with my single backpack which was probably just over 15kg and nobody raised an eyebrow. I could have worked it out...my pack always contains another pack. But they clearly weren't paying any attention anyhow.

ph-ndr

Only time I've had checkin staff have any interest in weights of luggage of any kind was when passing through BKK on the same flight as Al-Baker. Ground staff in BKK was a right pain and they pretyt much behaved as if they wanted customers to get lost and only focus on him.

-A

clubeurope

BSBtraveller

a9504477

At CBR they weigh all hand luggage including for J passengers. I did online checkin and went straight to the lounge. Told there that i have to also check in at the desk. Went there, leaving luggage in lounge, only to find out that i had to come back with it to get it weighed. Luckily security was a breeze so it didn't take too long.

Phil the Flyer

Leaping_Deere

I've never had a bag check weigh on QR flights in J, however most of my QR have been to BKK and MEL & AKL I think as others posters have said it tends to only on routes that are notorious for taking too much (places in Africa and the subcontinent come to mind)

ph-ndr

The only problem I consistently have in Africa is JRO where they check passports before walking up to checkin, and the two regular nincompoops manning this station keep claiming they cannot accept me on the flight because my passport (European country) needs a visa to where I go to (usually OSL/CPH) and no visa means no checkin. Try telling them about Schengen usually yields nothing, pointing them to Timatic (which they have open on a laptop) yields no cooperation and usually just blocking the queue and causing a backlog untill thet get someone more senior and knowledgable over usually helps.

But no issues on cabin luggage, which can be hefty on those trips. Same in EBB and NBO which I also randomly appear at.

-A

plunet

Bonus point for using the word nincompoops.

:D!

ARN and AKL both weighed my hand baggage at check in, but I had put some items elsewhere so they didn't get included in the weight nobody cared at the gates though.