Bits: BA cuts Club World baggage allowance, Hilton flash sale, Luxury Travel Diary auctions

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• N says:

  30 Mar30 March 06:17

  Are the auctions for charity? I feel like they were at some point and now there seems to be minimal mention of charity anywhere on the site.

• C Y S Yuen says:

  30 Mar30 March 06:23

  You know that I am actually feeling slight angry about the reduced luggage allowance…

  • C Y S Yuen says:

    30 Mar30 March 06:24

    *slightly

    • Sandgrounder says:

      30 Mar30 March 07:44

      The race to the bottom continues. Comparison sites have a lot to answer for.

  • John says:

    30 Mar30 March 08:26

    BA is still the most generous in the world. Technically you can still bring two 23kg bags on board in addition to the 32kg checked bags…

    I’ve done it. Brought some very heavy gold bars from London to HK.

• Andrew says:

  30 Mar30 March 07:10

  Sorry- when is the Hilton USA sale ending, UK time wise ?? I can’t find it on the Hilton page and not so sure from what you have said above (midnight Tues / early Wed… Both of which have passed ?)

  • Ian says:

    30 Mar30 March 07:42

    Midnight Tuesday CET

• Neil Holland says:

  30 Mar30 March 07:37

  Heading east to the US? For our Tahitian readers? :^)

  • John says:

    30 Mar30 March 08:27

    You can do it on CX or JL 😉

    For the TPs of course

• Talay says:

  30 Mar30 March 08:00

  We finally booked a Club World 2 for 1 Amex Avios ticket to Asia for July and were quite surprised that the allowance was 3 x 32kg, meaning my wife and daughter could travel with 192kg plus 4 hand luggage between them !

  We have been used to Etihad and a (usually) flexible 2 x 32kg plus seemingly unlimited carry on luggage and of course been “stuck” with hand or 1 x 28/32kg on European routes.

  I am glad this will not affect us this year as I believe my wife has already been working out just what she can take to fill all of the 192kg and likewise on the way back !

  No wonder they are cutting back but we did pay them £1024 in spurious “taxes” and “fees” and “fuel surcharges” or whatever they like to call them thee days.

• Leo says:

  30 Mar30 March 08:07

  Confused about the Hilton sale. So it was only valid until 4am this morning?

  • Rob says:

    30 Mar30 March 09:02

    No, mistake, lost track of what day it is as on holiday!

    • Nick says:

      30 Mar30 March 13:08

      Nothing wrong with losing track of what day it is, especially when on holiday. Ummmmm, is it Friday again yet!

• Eliot says:

  30 Mar30 March 08:07

  So just to confirm, a biz class ticket from London to NY is going down from 3 X 32kg to 2 X 23kg?

• Genghis says:

  30 Mar30 March 08:09

  I don’t really understand why one would really want to take so much luggage! If travelling for work or leisure, one case plus hand luggage is more than sufficient. Perhaps if you’re moving home internationally and want to take loads of stuff with you rather than get it shipped…

  • Leo says:

    30 Mar30 March 08:18

    +1. 3 cases = nightmare.

    • John says:

      30 Mar30 March 08:37

      Every American seems to do it. I wonder what exactly is in there when I see them struggling on the tube.

      • Brian says:

        30 Mar30 March 12:37

        Going by dirtyneedlebluesky’s comment, they are probably bringing in all the American groceries that they can’t get in Europe. Another thing I simply don’t understand – why go to another country and take all your home comforts with you? Isn’t the point of travel to broaden one’s horizons? And are these American groceries really so superior to their European counterparts that it is worth lugging them halfway around the world???

      • Danksy says:

        30 Mar30 March 17:31

        I’ll ask my wife… she packs 3 cases, but only ever uses half of one… Then she insists on washing everything that hasn’t been used… can’t find anything to where!

        • Danksy says:

          30 Mar30 March 17:51

          or wear!

    • Andy says:

      30 Mar30 March 21:29

      we take 3 and come home with for, plus our carry-on’s

  • Lady London says:

    30 Mar30 March 08:57

    I do have very good reasons for needing as much luggage as I can get. One good reason is all the presents I carry when I go to see family on the other side of the world. There are many other good reasons too. Luggage allowance is even more important than class of travel for me. I definitely choose my ticketing carrier/first outward leg, and routing (via US or via Asia?) accordingly.

    If you tend to need to carry a lot of luggage like me, the overriding luggage allowance conditions that apply for travel to or from North America are well worth familiarising oneself with, if you need to carry a lot of luggage. These regulations mean that if your ticket is to or from North America then the first ticketing carrier i.e. which airline’s code is on the first outward flight on the ticket, has the luggage regulations which will override any other airline’s luggage rules for all the flights on the rest of your ticket including BA’s. This can work for or against you. The outward segment does not even have to be on an aircraft belonging to the ticketing carrier – just which flight code is used on the first segment determines which luggage rules apply throughout the ticket. This override applies only to tickets falling under the North American luggage regulations.

    Whatever, the most generous luggage policy gets my business and this is another nail in BA’s coffin for me.

  • Gavin says:

    30 Mar30 March 09:26

    Obviously never seen a flight come in from Lagos!

    • TimS says:

      30 Mar30 March 16:36

      More interesting are the ones going BACK to Lagos!

      Large electrical items (fridges etc) are not uncommon “excess baggage” items on flights such as those. I once costed up a potential route for one airline between UK & West Africa where a large chunk of the annual profit would actually have been on forecasted excess baggage fees!

  • flyforfun says:

    30 Mar30 March 10:40

    When the US dollar was 2 to the GBP, I went out with 1 case and came back with 3. The savings I made on clothes and other items meant it was worth it, despite the hassle.

    I’ve also known people who were moving countries fly the premium cabins so they could bring more stuff with them. I lad who’s parents had split up and got taken to South Africa with his mum as a child, built up enough miles for a one way F ticket when he turned 18 and moved back to start university here. He was just on his limit for each bag!

    • Yuff says:

      30 Mar30 March 11:09

      The seaplane to Rangali has a strict limit of 25kg per passenger so I’m governed by that 🙂
      Ps I like to take as little as possible anyway 😉

  • Alan says:

    30 Mar30 March 18:54

    I must say that’s the only time I’ve done it. BA Gold got me 50% extra luggage allowance with QF, so I got 70kg in F – would have loved to have had the BA allowance as that would have been 96kg even under the new rules! Normally I don’t even go over 20kg on a single bag, when flying ex-EU from the regions you would end up paying a lot more for your positioning flight if you took lots of luggage!

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