Validation Trip Luggage Allowance
#1
Validation Trip Luggage Allowance
We've been advised that when we make our validation trip to Brisbane over Xmas that we must advise our airline (singapore) that we are not emigrating 'just yet' and that we will be coming back, in order to ensure that we do not use up our extra (emigration) luggage allowance during this trip
They said that once we check-in for the validation trip flight and the check-in assistant sees our passports with visas inside, they will presume we are emigrating 'now' and therefore allocate us the additional luggage allowance
I can't see this happening myself as it will be clear from the tickets that they are return flights and should only entitle us to a 'normal' luggage allowance
Has anybody heard of this nonsense before?
Cheers
They said that once we check-in for the validation trip flight and the check-in assistant sees our passports with visas inside, they will presume we are emigrating 'now' and therefore allocate us the additional luggage allowance
I can't see this happening myself as it will be clear from the tickets that they are return flights and should only entitle us to a 'normal' luggage allowance
Has anybody heard of this nonsense before?
Cheers
#2
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Re: Validation Trip Luggage Allowance
Originally Posted by tictac
We've been advised that when we make our validation trip to Brisbane over Xmas that we must advise our airline (singapore) that we are not emigrating 'just yet' and that we will be coming back, in order to ensure that we do not use up our extra (emigration) luggage allowance during this trip
They said that once we check-in for the validation trip flight and the check-in assistant sees our passports with visas inside, they will presume we are emigrating 'now' and therefore allocate us the additional luggage allowance
I can't see this happening myself as it will be clear from the tickets that they are return flights and should only entitle us to a 'normal' luggage allowance
Has anybody heard of this nonsense before?
Cheers
They said that once we check-in for the validation trip flight and the check-in assistant sees our passports with visas inside, they will presume we are emigrating 'now' and therefore allocate us the additional luggage allowance
I can't see this happening myself as it will be clear from the tickets that they are return flights and should only entitle us to a 'normal' luggage allowance
Has anybody heard of this nonsense before?
Cheers
Very few airlines do the extra allowance now, and I forsee it disappearing altogether before long.
#3
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Re: Validation Trip Luggage Allowance
I keep banging on about this - just fly via the US where you get 46kg - 64kg per person, every time you fly, no matter what visa you are on.
Simple.
Buzzy
Simple.
Buzzy
#4
Re: Validation Trip Luggage Allowance
Originally Posted by Buzzy--Bee
I keep banging on about this - just fly via the US where you get 46kg - 64kg per person, every time you fly, no matter what visa you are on.
Simple.
Buzzy
Simple.
Buzzy
I can't see my kids hauling around 64Kg of luggage somehow
;-)
#5
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Re: Validation Trip Luggage Allowance
Originally Posted by tictac
I can't see my kids hauling around 64Kg of luggage somehow
;-)
;-)
Buzzy
#6
Re: Validation Trip Luggage Allowance
Originally Posted by Buzzy--Bee
You don't have to take the full 64kg! It's just three times as great as the 20kg via the East everyone gets hung up about.
Buzzy
Buzzy
#7
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Re: Validation Trip Luggage Allowance
Originally Posted by mark213
Are you sure its not 32kg per piece - this is the max H&S allow baggage handlers to take? You still have to leave the UK somehow so unless you pick up stuff on the way in the US there is no way check will allow more that 32kg per bag.
But you are allowed 2 bags each = 64kg each.
Buzzy
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Re: Validation Trip Luggage Allowance
Originally Posted by Buzzy--Bee
I keep banging on about this - just fly via the US where you get 46kg - 64kg per person, every time you fly, no matter what visa you are on.
Simple.
Buzzy
Simple.
Buzzy
#9
Re: Validation Trip Luggage Allowance
Originally Posted by marco121068
Yep - totally agree. OK - so it might take a little longer - but why not break the trip up and stop off someplace?
....we're kinda done with the stop-offs for a while!
MAN-BNE in 2007, when we move for good, would be perfect - with or without the extra weight allowance!!
Thanks for the info though
Cheers
#10
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Re: Validation Trip Luggage Allowance
Originally Posted by tictac
Because after a MAN-LHR-HKG-PER-BNE-SYD-LAX-JFK-LHR-MAN in March 2006, followed by a MAN-LHR-SIN-BNE-SIN-LHR-MAN in December 2006...
....we're kinda done with the stop-offs for a while!
MAN-BNE in 2007, when we move for good, would be perfect - with or without the extra weight allowance!!
Thanks for the info though
Cheers
....we're kinda done with the stop-offs for a while!
MAN-BNE in 2007, when we move for good, would be perfect - with or without the extra weight allowance!!
Thanks for the info though
Cheers
That's one helluva trip. I can see why you'd want to get straight there.
#11
Re: Validation Trip Luggage Allowance
Originally Posted by Buzzy--Bee
I keep banging on about this - just fly via the US where you get 46kg - 64kg per person, every time you fly, no matter what visa you are on.
Simple.
Buzzy
Simple.
Buzzy
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