Wez and Chris

I thought that if you went on a PR visa ie to live there for good and providing it was your first journey after receiving your PR visa you were entitled to almost double the baggage allowance when flying from UK to Oz?? can anyone clarify??

tawkins1

Thanks Pollyana.........

joho

Only certain airlines offer this deal, but from the sounds of it most of them have taken this off due to the fuel prices. Its not a given that you get it and certainly not entitled.

Jo

Ozzidoc

Me too!

gazclaire

We flew with singapore 3 weeks ago and we met the criteria that enabled us to get 40kgs each, we flew on the A380 and can highly reccommend it

joho

Thats who we used when we came over, the seem to be the ones that offer it the most. I think sometimes its down to luck of the draw who you ask. Try and get email confirmation too.

Jo

Bag End Bunch

Can you tell me how you got the extra weight allowance? Did you book online with a travel agent or direct with Singapore airlines? We're at the stage of booking planes now so any advise would be really helpful - thanks

Alex

Pollyana

For general info - only Singapore seem to offer the 40kgs now free of charge, though some other airlines do have deals where you get the extra baggage in echange fo a higher fare price.
The usual critieria is that it must be an unvalidated PR visa on a one-way ticket.

For more details search BE for Singapore airlines and you will find details of their phone number and email address. If you don't contact them before hand, don't assume you will get 40kgs.

Tiawamutu

We are in UK for a visit atm. We flew 11th October, and we never got our hand luggage weighed.

We were chosen for a spot check though, and were swabbed for explosives, and there was something 'organic' showed up on my x-ray, but it was only deodorant

Why is it you get all nervous, even though you have nothing to hide

Tiawamutu

Just came back today, and again never got weighed.

I think it depends on who you get, as the man next to us got his weighed. May have also been something to do with the fact his hand luggage was on the rather large side

In the end, our cases were weighed together, and were 3kg overweight, but she let us off.

As I said, all depends on who you get. Plus our hand baggage was only small/medium size.

tawkins1

We booked direct thru the Emirate site in June & have already booked our seats there & back!
Just having a browse through our itinery & checked our seat plan & it had been changed!!!! There are 5 of us flying 2 adults & 3 children & they had put 4 of us on one row & our 6 yr old daughter on her own behind us :curse:

I contacted them & they have now amended it but she had no idea why the seating arrangements had been changed

Anyone flying with Emirates, just check your seating arrangements before you leave home! We fly 14th Nov

Twinset

Funny that,

We had multiple changes to our itinerary last time we flew with them: flight times, seats etc.

Not saying they are bad, just not the best.....

BATS666

absolutely......via USA is a silly idea !!

ray2gill

These are actually agents used by the various airlines and not airline staff. You have the right to complain.

When we were flying with my father there was a very officious lady at the gate checking hand luggage weights. As my father was 90 he put his hand luggage (holdall) on a trolley and wheeled it to the gate, this lady thought it was heavy and weighed it at over 7 kgs and was very rude. My father pointed out that it included his duty free drink and took it out and insisted that she weigh it again as the ticket states 7kgs excluding duty free. She then declined and was very red faced but my father insisted and we reported her to the Emirates Duty Manager in Birmingham when we arrived in Dubai.