3rd Bag Question
May 10, 2013 | 12:48 pm
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3rd Bag Question
Hi All,
I'm flying CPH-IAD on Tuesday on SK and continuing on a UA flight. I have 3 bags total plus a backpack. As *G I get to check 2 bags @ 23kg but I'm seriously considering checking the 3rd one. It's a carry on sized roller board, but I'd rather not deal with it. According to the SK website it says that they will charge 100 for each additional piece of checked luggage. Is this really how much they would charge me?
The reason I ask is that UA charges you a lot more for a 3rd bag and any bag after that, so it seems weird to me that SK charges you the same for any bags after your free allowance.
I'm flying CPH-IAD on Tuesday on SK and continuing on a UA flight. I have 3 bags total plus a backpack. As *G I get to check 2 bags @ 23kg but I'm seriously considering checking the 3rd one. It's a carry on sized roller board, but I'd rather not deal with it. According to the SK website it says that they will charge 100 for each additional piece of checked luggage. Is this really how much they would charge me?
The reason I ask is that UA charges you a lot more for a 3rd bag and any bag after that, so it seems weird to me that SK charges you the same for any bags after your free allowance.
May 10, 2013 | 4:46 pm
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I traveled with SK/UA as *G with 6 bags from Norway to the US last summer and they charged me the flat rate for all bags. The limit is 4 extra bags after calculating your ticket/FF allowance.
Note that if the total weight of your checked bags is ~46kg or less, my experience is that they will let you check them all for free (at least as EBG).
Note that if the total weight of your checked bags is ~46kg or less, my experience is that they will let you check them all for free (at least as EBG).
May 11, 2013 | 1:57 pm
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Thanks meheeco. That's what I wanted to hear. I just wanted a second opinion. Unfortunately I have a little more than 46 kg of luggage. I haven't decided if it's worth paying to check a 3rd bag or if I should just take it on as a carry on. We'll see.
May 11, 2013 | 7:45 pm
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Hi All,
I'm flying CPH-IAD on Tuesday on SK and continuing on a UA flight. I have 3 bags total plus a backpack. As *G I get to check 2 bags @ 23kg but I'm seriously considering checking the 3rd one. It's a carry on sized roller board, but I'd rather not deal with it. According to the SK website it says that they will charge 100 for each additional piece of checked luggage. Is this really how much they would charge me?
The reason I ask is that UA charges you a lot more for a 3rd bag and any bag after that, so it seems weird to me that SK charges you the same for any bags after your free allowance.
I'm flying CPH-IAD on Tuesday on SK and continuing on a UA flight. I have 3 bags total plus a backpack. As *G I get to check 2 bags @ 23kg but I'm seriously considering checking the 3rd one. It's a carry on sized roller board, but I'd rather not deal with it. According to the SK website it says that they will charge 100 for each additional piece of checked luggage. Is this really how much they would charge me?
The reason I ask is that UA charges you a lot more for a 3rd bag and any bag after that, so it seems weird to me that SK charges you the same for any bags after your free allowance.
May 12, 2013 | 1:48 am
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Correct. Unless I'm missing something SK is the MSC on my itinerary CPH-IAD (SK) and IAD-PHX (UA). If it was UA they wouldn't care. From what I remember UA also doesn't particularly care if you have a carry on and a personal item in Y, but SK seems to care sometimes.
May 12, 2013 | 12:34 pm
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Correct. Unless I'm missing something SK is the MSC on my itinerary CPH-IAD (SK) and IAD-PHX (UA). If it was UA they wouldn't care. From what I remember UA also doesn't particularly care if you have a carry on and a personal item in Y, but SK seems to care sometimes.
http://www.flysas.com/en/Travel-info...h-connections/
Rules for travel to and from the US are slightly different.
Rules for travel to and from the US are slightly different.
- First carrier baggage rules apply to both outbound and homebound journeys regardless of duration and stopovers.
- The first carrier in your itinerary is crucial for determining which rules apply for the entire journey to/from the US.
- The first carrier in the itinerary and the carrier operating the flight may not be the same, meaning that it is a codeshare flight. The first marketing carrier rule applies for the entire journey.
May 12, 2013 | 1:12 pm
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These are not SK rules, they are US DOT rules applicable to itineraries to/from the US. Forget the whole MSC silliness.
Whatever the allowance is for the first segment, that allowance will apply throughout the itinerary. Presuming that OP is on a single ticket CPH-IAD-PHX-XXX-CPH, his CPH-IAD allowance will apply thoughout.
Note that if IAD-PHX is a connection, not a stopover, OP's bags will be checked to PHX, but he will retrieve them for CBP at IAD and then drop them. If he is stopping over at IAD, he will collect his bags and then check them in with UA when he departs IAD and pay the third bag fee to UA.
Whatever the allowance is for the first segment, that allowance will apply throughout the itinerary. Presuming that OP is on a single ticket CPH-IAD-PHX-XXX-CPH, his CPH-IAD allowance will apply thoughout.
Note that if IAD-PHX is a connection, not a stopover, OP's bags will be checked to PHX, but he will retrieve them for CBP at IAD and then drop them. If he is stopping over at IAD, he will collect his bags and then check them in with UA when he departs IAD and pay the third bag fee to UA.
May 12, 2013 | 1:25 pm
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These are not SK rules, they are US DOT rules applicable to itineraries to/from the US. Forget the whole MSC silliness.
Whatever the allowance is for the first segment, that allowance will apply throughout the itinerary. Presuming that OP is on a single ticket CPH-IAD-PHX-XXX-CPH, his CPH-IAD allowance will apply thoughout.
Whatever the allowance is for the first segment, that allowance will apply throughout the itinerary. Presuming that OP is on a single ticket CPH-IAD-PHX-XXX-CPH, his CPH-IAD allowance will apply thoughout.
May 12, 2013 | 4:32 pm
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Thanks. This is actually the end of a trip that started 1/1. EWR-FRA-STR on LH and now CPH-IAD-PHX SK/UA. I didn't realize that about US DOT rules. I always thought it was MSC so thanks for the clarification. I'll probably end up checking the 3rd bag and not deal with it. Thanks for all the comments.
May 12, 2013 | 9:18 pm
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These are not SK rules, they are US DOT rules applicable to itineraries to/from the US. Forget the whole MSC silliness.
Whatever the allowance is for the first segment, that allowance will apply throughout the itinerary. Presuming that OP is on a single ticket CPH-IAD-PHX-XXX-CPH, his CPH-IAD allowance will apply thoughout.
Note that if IAD-PHX is a connection, not a stopover, OP's bags will be checked to PHX, but he will retrieve them for CBP at IAD and then drop them. If he is stopping over at IAD, he will collect his bags and then check them in with UA when he departs IAD and pay the third bag fee to UA.
Whatever the allowance is for the first segment, that allowance will apply throughout the itinerary. Presuming that OP is on a single ticket CPH-IAD-PHX-XXX-CPH, his CPH-IAD allowance will apply thoughout.
Note that if IAD-PHX is a connection, not a stopover, OP's bags will be checked to PHX, but he will retrieve them for CBP at IAD and then drop them. If he is stopping over at IAD, he will collect his bags and then check them in with UA when he departs IAD and pay the third bag fee to UA.
The free checked bag allowance I get as an economy class Star Gold on EWR-FRA-CPH-IAD-PHX/MSP/ORD/MIA is 3 bags.
MSC rules may be applied to multi-carrier itineraries to/from the US, depending upon what the first marketing carrier on a ticketed itinerary has stipulated -- the first marketing carrier can,
under US rules, stipulate that MSC fees apply.
Last edited by GUWonder; May 12, 2013 at 9:27 pm
May 13, 2013 | 11:19 am
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Thanks. This is actually the end of a trip that started 1/1. EWR-FRA-STR on LH and now CPH-IAD-PHX SK/UA. I didn't realize that about US DOT rules. I always thought it was MSC so thanks for the clarification. I'll probably end up checking the 3rd bag and not deal with it. Thanks for all the comments.
May 15, 2013 | 8:32 am
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In the end, the nice woman who checked me in let me check all 3 bags for free. I was certainly willing to pay for the third one, but she said something to the effect of "normally you'd have to pay for the third bag, but I'm gonna let it go." I was also surprised that they tagged bags as heavy at 22 kg. In the US I've only seen bags over 23 kg tagged as heavy.