I have done. I have pointed to specific sections of the VA website that cover both of your complaints. This section of the website is highlighted in the booking confirmations that VA issues to their customers. If you didn't get this, then try taking it up with the third party who sold you the tickets.

The fact that you felt you needed two lengthy telephone calls to discuss luggage in which you made the telephonists look up their policies indicates that both you and VA knew there was an issue with what you were intending to do. Most of us would simply have looked at the carrier's website for information on luggage allowances.

As I've said numerous times previously I fly at least 1 to 2 times per week in the domestic US and never once over the course of the past 10 years has there ever been a mention of weight restriction for a carry-on baggage. Of course I suppose things are different with the low-end foreign low-cost carriers that you all are so fond of.

Thank you for your interest in my telephone conversation. So that I might clarify they were held to discuss whether or not I was permitted to check luggage. It took them the better part of an hour to determine that my elite status with Delta did not qualify for any reciprocal benefits in regards to complementary check bags. As such I checked the larger of my bags at the Sydney airport hotel so that I did not have to check them on that domestic flight. So your conspiracy theory that I was attempting to scam the airline has once again been disproven sorry...

Yes, low-end foreign low-cost carriers which impose 7kg carry-on baggage weight restrictions in Economy such as:

Singapore Airlines - http://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/tr...ge-allowances/

Cathay Pacific - http://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_A...n-baggage.html

Emirates - http://www.emirates.com/au/english/h...ry=214913#faq5

Malaysia Airlines - http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/au/e...d-baggage.html

All clearly inferior and must be avoided.

And
Lufthansa (8kg) - http://www.lufthansa.com/au/en/Carry-on-baggage
Qantas - http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airl...gage/global/en

All Skytrax 5 Star rated airlines - http://www.airlinequality.com/StarRanking/5star.htm - have cabin baggage weight restrictions, Malaysia, Qatar, Cathay and Singapore 7kg and ANA, Asiana and Hainan 10kg.

If you want to do yourself out of 5 star rated airlines, so be it.

Any organisation, airline or otherwise, that discourages the consumption of that revolting pale-brown coloured liquid that Starbucks alleges is coffee can only be congratulated and encouraged. Those early Merkins were a couple of hundred years too early when they dumped tea down the New York sewer system, or whatever it was that they did with it. If it happened today, they'd be heading for Seattle and doing it to that Starbucks muck if they had any sense.

I can, however, understand the disappointment of foreigners who are used to being able to carry their kitchen sink onto an airline being denied that pleasure when boarding an Australian carrier. Come to think of it, nah, bugger the foreigners, and it appears that the LOTFAP is the only nation that is marching in-step on that score.

And here was I thinking that the VA board here consisted entirely of of dried-up old prunes. This thread has completely changed my mind.

As you were, ladies and gents.

But other countries are not quite the same as the USA - a fact that often seems to come as a surprise to your compatriots

but given that 3% of the planet's population seems to believe that it's the centre of the universe...

OP might be one of those who think that without USA we would be still running around naked with sticks in hands

Or speaking German, which thankfully we don't because LOTFAP single-handedly saved the planet back in the 1940s? (disclaimer, I'd love to be able to speak German but my school didn't offer the course so I settled for French instead).
(ducks for cover)

I wasn't there, but given that he's repeatedly called airline personnel Nazis and considering the tone of his posts, I'd be willing to take a guess at what his demeanor was.

People have given you answers to your complaints. You're just upset that the answers aren't the answers you want to hear.

As an American, I must (sadly) agree with this statement. The amount of ignorance of the rest of the world among my countrymen is appalling.

US-Australia flights are not (yet) "domestic US" - even though we seem to let you guys use the smartgates for no reciprocal benefits in return.


Yup. Decent meals on board, even on domestic sectors, and not having to buy a separate lounge membership to get into the lounges (despite having status) being just two of them.

The thread has deteriorated to a number of personal exchanges punctuated by ad hominem, overheated rhetoric and vitriol to the point it is of no use, so it will now be closed.

JDiver
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