Baggage Allowances (again)

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Oct 18th 2005 | 10:39 pm

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AvronW

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Re: Baggage Allowances (again)

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Originally Posted by Dickie

We flew with Quantas (last month) and because we were new migrants we were allowed 40kg each after showing them our visa. We had 4 cases (which had to be below 80kg combined) and 2 hand luggage.

From what I've learned, it appears that this only applies if you are in fact on your first trip to Australia (i.e. you have not yet validated your visa). If you have visited to validate, you seem to have lost this extra allowance and are treated like a normal traveller...

Would have been good to know before we did our validation trip.

-Avron