Warning when booking flights!!
Apr 9th 2003, 8:00 am
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Warning when booking flights!!
Dont make the same mistake we've just done. Booked our one way flight to Perth but forgot to say it was on a migration visa. Therefore we cannot claim the 40 kilo baggage allowance each person!! also we were going from Manchester to Heathrow to pick up the Qantas flight and so BA would not have allowed us the extra baggage anyway. YOU MUST tell them when you book your flight. Also I think you will nrrd your visa number. Come all this way and balls up this last bit!!:lecture: 
Apr 9th 2003, 8:06 am
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Doh! 
Thanks for the warning
Sindy
Thanks for the warningSindy
Apr 9th 2003, 8:09 am
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Re: Warning when booking flights!!
GOOD INFO BROX
AND GOOD LUCK
AND GOOD LUCK
Apr 9th 2003, 8:18 am
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Cheers for that advice and good luck with it all.
Apr 9th 2003, 8:31 am
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Re: Warning when booking flights!!
Originally posted by brox
Dont make the same mistake we've just done. Booked our one way flight to Perth but forgot to say it was on a migration visa. Therefore we cannot claim the 40 kilo baggage allowance each person!! also we were going from Manchester to Heathrow to pick up the Qantas flight and so BA would not have allowed us the extra baggage anyway. YOU MUST tell them when you book your flight. Also I think you will nrrd your visa number. Come all this way and balls up this last bit!!:lecture:
Dont make the same mistake we've just done. Booked our one way flight to Perth but forgot to say it was on a migration visa. Therefore we cannot claim the 40 kilo baggage allowance each person!! also we were going from Manchester to Heathrow to pick up the Qantas flight and so BA would not have allowed us the extra baggage anyway. YOU MUST tell them when you book your flight. Also I think you will nrrd your visa number. Come all this way and balls up this last bit!!:lecture:
Thanks for that,
Good Luck in Perth
Apr 9th 2003, 10:49 am
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Re: Warning when booking flights!!
Originally posted by brox
Dont make the same mistake we've just done. Booked our one way flight to Perth but forgot to say it was on a migration visa. Therefore we cannot claim the 40 kilo baggage allowance each person!! also we were going from Manchester to Heathrow to pick up the Qantas flight and so BA would not have allowed us the extra baggage anyway. YOU MUST tell them when you book your flight. Also I think you will nrrd your visa number. Come all this way and balls up this last bit!!:lecture:
Dont make the same mistake we've just done. Booked our one way flight to Perth but forgot to say it was on a migration visa. Therefore we cannot claim the 40 kilo baggage allowance each person!! also we were going from Manchester to Heathrow to pick up the Qantas flight and so BA would not have allowed us the extra baggage anyway. YOU MUST tell them when you book your flight. Also I think you will nrrd your visa number. Come all this way and balls up this last bit!!:lecture:
Thanks for the good advice, take the balls up at the last bit with a pintch of salt and say life is sweet!
Good Luck
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Apr 9th 2003, 6:46 pm
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We flew on Tuesday, only had 20 kilos each (4 of us) but managed to fill 5 suitcases and 3 holdalls. Had max hand luggage too, only had dimensions on our tickets so didn't realise there was a weight limit too. We flew Malaysian, weight of hand luggage not to exceed 7 kilos. We seem to have managed okay, even brought my daughters bed side lamp that was forgotten when we shipped stuff, so don't panic too much!
Apr 9th 2003, 6:57 pm
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Gawd Loopy you didn't waste anytime getting back on line. How's it going so far? Did you change at Kuala Lumpar or Singapore? How was it ref. SARS
Apr 10th 2003, 3:58 am
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If you have had to go over to validate your visa cos you were given a date four weeks hence to do it (quick in and out jobbie) does that mean that you can't then use the immigrant allowance of 40 kilos when you actually emigrate a bit later on
By the way anyone know any good one way deals to Adelaide at the moment (for June)
Elaine
By the way anyone know any good one way deals to Adelaide at the moment (for June)
Elaine
Apr 10th 2003, 6:34 am
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Correct, if your visa is stamped you can't have the extra.
We tried that too.
Mash..
We tried that too.
Mash..
Originally posted by grubelice
If you have had to go over to validate your visa cos you were given a date four weeks hence to do it (quick in and out jobbie) does that mean that you can't then use the immigrant allowance of 40 kilos when you actually emigrate a bit later on
By the way anyone know any good one way deals to Adelaide at the moment (for June)
Elaine
If you have had to go over to validate your visa cos you were given a date four weeks hence to do it (quick in and out jobbie) does that mean that you can't then use the immigrant allowance of 40 kilos when you actually emigrate a bit later on
By the way anyone know any good one way deals to Adelaide at the moment (for June)
Elaine
Apr 10th 2003, 6:35 am
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Wow Loopy, well done on getting there, how did it all go?
Mash..
Mash..
Originally posted by Loopy
We flew on Tuesday, only had 20 kilos each (4 of us) but managed to fill 5 suitcases and 3 holdalls. Had max hand luggage too, only had dimensions on our tickets so didn't realise there was a weight limit too. We flew Malaysian, weight of hand luggage not to exceed 7 kilos. We seem to have managed okay, even brought my daughters bed side lamp that was forgotten when we shipped stuff, so don't panic too much!
We flew on Tuesday, only had 20 kilos each (4 of us) but managed to fill 5 suitcases and 3 holdalls. Had max hand luggage too, only had dimensions on our tickets so didn't realise there was a weight limit too. We flew Malaysian, weight of hand luggage not to exceed 7 kilos. We seem to have managed okay, even brought my daughters bed side lamp that was forgotten when we shipped stuff, so don't panic too much!
Apr 10th 2003, 6:39 am
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that's a bit of a swizzz..
if you get a return ticket it's pretty obvious you're comiing home but if you get a one way it's pretty obvious you're not!!
cheers
richard
if you get a return ticket it's pretty obvious you're comiing home but if you get a one way it's pretty obvious you're not!!
cheers
richard
Apr 10th 2003, 6:55 pm
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[That's what we thought. We even rang Qantas and BA but they wouldn't help. We could have cancelled the tickets and rebooked but the cancellation fee was £175 per ticket. The ticket's only cost us £310 each anyway. MAJOR rethink going on reg. the luggage.
Apr 10th 2003, 7:16 pm
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Hi,
We did get our 40 kilo allowance, 3 suitcases stuffed full and weighing 40 kilo's each, Perfect.
Oh no, you can have the 40 kilo's to your stop off no problem but Perth international airport handlers will not handle luggage over 32 kilo's so at check-in Heathrow we had to buy another suitcase and distrupute the weight between the 4 cases. It was great, NOT, the whole queue saw my awful packing skills and my knickers which all on top!!!! And I am not one for showing my knickers unless I have had at least a litre of Vodka!!
Hope this saves everyone from the embrasessment that we endured!!
Tra la la
Love Jo xx
We did get our 40 kilo allowance, 3 suitcases stuffed full and weighing 40 kilo's each, Perfect.
Oh no, you can have the 40 kilo's to your stop off no problem but Perth international airport handlers will not handle luggage over 32 kilo's so at check-in Heathrow we had to buy another suitcase and distrupute the weight between the 4 cases. It was great, NOT, the whole queue saw my awful packing skills and my knickers which all on top!!!! And I am not one for showing my knickers unless I have had at least a litre of Vodka!!
Hope this saves everyone from the embrasessment that we endured!!
Tra la la
Love Jo xx
Apr 13th 2003, 10:58 pm
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You may be okay without the allowance anyway, we didnt let the airline know in time, and ended up travelling with urm 44 kgs each. Nothing was said at Heathrow (singapore airlines) however at Singapore they did notice the over abundance but gave us up to 80kgs free with a bit of eyelash fluttering and telling them we were migrating. and doing a little more fluttering. The 8kgs we got away with by having no hand luguage, so we claimed that as our allowance!! bTherefore didnt have to pay excess baggage fees at all.
