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• Overweight luggage (Score:1)

  by roger.hale (5727) on 2006.05.16 22:54 (#47725)

  Could this trigger a change in the airline's luggage policies? (Now if you were moving the whole house this way, I bet they'd charge a little more!)

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  • Re:Overweight luggage (Score:1)

    by Alias (5735)

    I doubt it.
    
    It's $2 a kilo... if the plane will take it.
    
    If you bring more than they can handle, they just bump the excess until the next flight.
    
    For this flight, a 100 kilogram self-propelled meatbag can ride the plane for $120. 100 kilograms of dead weight costs $200. (of course, they have to carry it though...)
    
    So I guess you could keep dumping it and they'd keep taking it.
    
    Of course, once the value of a possession falls very close to $2 a kilogram, or is too large to fit into the hold, land becomes cheaper.
    • Re:Overweight luggage (Score:1)

      by roger.hale (5727)

      Ah -- $2 a kilo. That makes sense, and scales well. I read it as a $2 flat fee, which sounded quite a miracle, and I wondered how they could possibly sustain it.