markrj

Hi there,

Does anyone know any ways to get a larger baggage allowance?

We want to travel from London Heathrow to Bankok(Thailand) spend one or two weeks there and then travel the rest of the way to Australia, this is our migration.

We are going to only be taking what baggage allowance the plane will allow each. We understand that some airlines do a larger baggage allowance, does anyone know who and whether they have to be booked by IOM, or independantly.

IOM is given in the visa grant letter and it is not clear what you can and cant do with their flights. We want to stop over but will only want maximum 20kg to travel with in Thailand. I know when I flew before there was a left luggage facility at Bankok airport, but that was before September 11th and I don't know whether this is still an option.

If any one knows anything about this please feel free to reply here, or private message us.

Thank you all

Angie(and Mark)

DebraH

all I know is that when we booked our flights with Travelbag/Qantas we told them that we were emigrating and please could we have extra luggage allowance -

sure you can they said, which is great news. I suppose we'll have to take proof unless it says on tickets.

sorry if this isn't much help

rodandhayley

im sure you have to fly direct to get your double allowance your stop off in bkk would mean you have little or no chance

jojo90

A stopover shouldn't make any difference. We are stopping off in Singapore and have been given the additional allowance (40kg/person). When I booked the tickets with Trailfinders I had to bring the passports with visas....they took a photocopy and that was it. Baggage allowance adjusted! I think people previously have contacted the airline directly to confirm the increased allowance. Ensure you take written evidence though as somebody recently took a stopover and had problems with the excess baggage on the second flight and was charged!!

Suni&Jay

Going from replies to previous post on this subject most if not all airlines will not allow 40kg if you a stopping on route.
We ask Emirates and the answer was NO!, but then we are having 4 stops

luchi

Hi

we r travelling by emirates and can only get extra allowance if on a non-stop flight (exc re-fuel)...so every airline is different!! But its worth getting written confirm about the extra allowance so u don't have any hassle at check-in!!

Suni&Jay

Good point, get it in black and white, again many people have been told they can have the extra allowance but have nothing in b&w so they end up paying for the extra luggage.

Buzzy--Bee

If you fly via the US you can get 46 - 64kg each no matter what visa you are on. Air New Zealand and United are 2 airlines that fly this route.



Buzzy

Alison1967

I booked my flight with travelbag using singapore airlines and even though i gave them a copy of my visa my tickets state 20kg. Rang them twice and twice they promised to give me proof of 40kgs and twice didn't.
Rang SIA at manchester airport and asked for fax confirming and they said they don't do faxes and as long as my visa isn't validated i will get the allowance. So i faxed SIA and they sent me a email confirming 40kg allowance.

I wanted to have a two night stopover in singapore but was told if i did that i couldn't have the extra baggage allowance. So no stopover

Ali x

Leeds_to_Perth

Which fax numbers for SIA please?

I was told as long as I have a PRvisa I'll be ok at checkin...

Does a ProspectiveMarriageVisa class as PR yet?
all confusing...

woody1cruiser

We have booked with Malaysian, through trailfinders and they said we can only have 20kg. We are going on a 457 so will we qualify for more? Who do I contact?

Debs

isgraham

When I flew over in November last year with SIA we got the confirmation of the extra allowance and had a stopoverfor 4 days in Singapore however the london office had not informed the people in Singapore that we had the extra allowance so I had to negotiate with the people in Singapore in order to get the allowance at no extra cost to me

poppets

We flew with singapore airlines, they eventually upped our allowance to 30kgs each + 7 kgs hand luggage. Hubby phoned & emailed a couple of times to get the result he wanted, you may need to persevere to. He had to fax copy of visa too. We had a one night stop in singapore, all hold luggage (total of 7 items) were chesked in at heathrow all way to final destination airport, no need to collect & take to singapore airport, no worry with re checking th ehold luggage back on next flight , all done by singapore air, no problems at all, all luggage arrived safe & sound at destination

The Nices

We are flying with Malaysian Airlines in September. Booked direct with them and was told they stopped the 40kg allowance some time ago!

woody1cruiser

Rats! Thanks for letting me know.

Debs