Luggage Allowance
 

Hi all

I have decided that I will book a one way flight to Toronto this january as I will be activating my Visa in March I will book a return before this point.

So in the short space between going and activating my WHV I will search for work.

I wanted to know of the best flights offering good luggage allowance or whether there are any that would let me take more than the usual 20-25kg as alot of my stuff will be winter type clothing I imagine that allowance will be taken quickly.

Thanks
Bobby

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I think you have to upgrade the flight to get the extra baggage allowance these days. I have recently booked my flight through BA (were cheaper than Air Canada by quite a bit) and they charge 30 odd quid for extra suitcases so I have gone this way instead of upgrading my flight.

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Well i just did a one way ticket check with BA and i might be doing something wrong in the search but it is around £900 for a one way economy ticket!

however if i do a return it works out cheaper ?

Wonder if doing a flexible retrun would work out better?

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that's what i have done

return ticket is for the middle of april next year. It doesn't mean I will be using it though :)

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oh i see

yeah my friend just said advised me that too

said to book a return flight and so what if i dont use it still works out cheaper

however just seen flights with canadian affair/air transit for £200 one way so might go with them. The allowance is £25kg so i dont mind getting stung with £50 to add another 5kg in

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Hiya,

We booked our flight with Air Canada and you can take an extra suitcase for $70 so we went for that, tickets are expensive but we fly out on the 16th Dec, so I assume it's the pre xmas boom.

When do you head out?
What state you going to?

Have to ask as you are a fellow Brummie!
Where abouts you living?

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Hey Taylor, i was going to call them up and check whether there was such an option so a better suitcase is definitely a good option.

Will see if such an option exists with Air Transit who are way cheap in january.

I have PM you with fellow brummie info rather than on here
Thanks

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Can't believe how cheap your flight is, jammy sod

We flew with them in June and I have to say they weren't the best, it actually turned out to be Thomas Cook airlines, flew from Manchester and it were a tight squeeze on that plane :ohmy: and no free drinks boooooooooooo

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We flew one way with Air India in 2008. They had an allowance of 40kg pperson plus hand luggage.

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Well it is a one way flight and yeah i have flown with them before and its not the best but I rather pay less and suffer. Plus i tend to have a few glasses of red before hand so that puts me out for most the flight lol

Air India...do they fly to canada because i just checked and could not find anything??

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They did in 2008. From heathrow. Had a great curry mid flight. Lol. Honest.

Just checked flights and i cant find any. So maybe they have stopped flying west now.

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Hey there,

With Canadian Affair type in "Discover Canada" in the promo code and get extra 10% off. I know it said code valid till end of October but I just tried it for our one way in March 2012 and it worked.

Good Luck

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Hey thanks

It did work and i think saved £19 for the flight i was going to book so looking at £179 one way and fingers crossed immigration wont kick up a fuss about me only havinga one way.

NEXT STEP - luggage

option to upgrade to club class costs an £143 which will allow 40kg luggage allowance so only an extra 15kg

Thinking whether for the same money i could find a shipping company to send over a lot more of my stuff for the same price.

any recommendations from anyone?

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excessbaggage.com is one of the company we asked for a quote from and they are quite competitive.

Mhut

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Bobby, I flew with canadian afffair... as you know they have a 25kg allowance. I vac packed my clothes (and I had a lot of winter stuff) and was able to fit a ton in there - and it didn't go over the 25kg. I did the same for my hand luggage - vac packed clothes and put them in there. My hand luggage was over and all the girl asked was if I had a laptop in there - showed it to her and she let me on my merry way :) Regarding the one way ticket... I came out 3 weeks ago on a one way ticket... Immigration were absolutely fine - I was asked why I put 180 days on my landing card and if I had a return ticket - explained I had a PR application in and the guy was fine - and didn't stamp my passport with an entry date.