baggage allowance difference for connecting flights
 

Hi there,

I am moving to Gold Coast, Australia from Vancouver, Canada.
I have checked the flight options, I can either flight straight from Vancouver to Sydney with Air Canada (which allows 2 bags, 23kg each), then fly from Sydney to the Gold Coast with Quantas. Since they have different baggage allowance restrictions, I am wondering who do I talk to or pay the differences, and how much is the cost of one extra bag on Quantas?

The other option I have would be to fly with Air New Zealand. But I have been getting mix information online. Some says that Air NZ only allows one bag for up to 23kg, but other says it allows up to 50 kg for international flights from Canada to Australia. Will someone confirm this for me?

I am trying to decide which is my best option for the move, any help would be much appreciated! Thank you!

The general rule is that if booked as one ticket you get the higher allowance for all the flights.

As for Air NZ - http://www.airnewzealand.co.uk/check...-after-26may10

It's Qantas BTW

It doesn't always need to be one ticket. While there are often regulations that specify this (e.g. China to HK to US with less than x hours in HK), even if when they're aren't, it's usually a pretty easy system to game IME.

For example, I recently booked a friend PVG-SFO in C on UA and a separate ticket from SFO to JFK in cheap Y on AA.

He got his 2 seventy pound bags tagged all the way to JFK in Shanghai. In theory, the AA people at SFO could have nailed him for a bundle of money (first and second checked bag fee plus a lot more for the weight). They didn't, possibly because they didn't notice or possibly because charging him would have put them in a gray area wrt to relevant laws.