20 kilos
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Jan 6th 2008, 3:20 am
#17
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Re: 20 kilos
come to me, I will let you off some $$$$$ 
Jan 6th 2008, 3:21 am
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Re: 20 kilos
If your flying from the UK you can send a case over with a company called excess baggage, I used the one at Picadilly Station in Manchester. The cost for one bag was 20 quid (I think) but it was four years ago, at the end of the day its still far cheeper than what the airline would charge per kilo, the case ended up in Auckland 5 or so days after me.
Jan 6th 2008, 4:02 am
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Re: 20 kilos
I would double check with the airlines, but when we made the move to nz we flew via the states, mainly cos of the luggage allowance, it was 64 kg per person !!! That meant we could effectively take 6 cases ( 2 adults 1 child with full luggage allowance!) with more stuff in than we could lift. Dont know if that situ has changed as its 6 years since, but I think the states still has extra allowances. We flew with Air NZ, but BA/Qantas also do the same route, cant speak for other airlines and routes. Hope that helps. 
Jan 6th 2008, 5:29 am
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Re: 20 kilos
we flew via LAX with AIR NZ and our allowance was 40kg per person.......4 of us ,so we had 2 cases each,bit of a struggle with the cases as you have to collect them at LAX and check them back in,via connections,(WHICH THEY SAID WE WOULD NOT NEED TO DO,BUT WE DID)not the best route to go,but wasn't that bad......jacky
Jan 6th 2008, 6:32 am
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Re: 20 kilos
The limits so far as Air NZ are concerned are the same now as when we flew to NZ in July 2007 and you can find it all HERE
London to NZ via Hong Kong - 1 piece of baggage checked in at a max of 20Kgs plus hand baggage at 7kgs
London via LAX - 2 pieces checked in at a max of 23kgs per bag plus 7kgs hand baggage per passenger in one piece.
If you enquire with Air NZ as with other airlines you'll find that one of the checked pieces on the LA route can be up to a max of 32kgs but the max per passenger is still 46kgs and only one over 23kg item per passenger is allowed.
London to NZ via Hong Kong - 1 piece of baggage checked in at a max of 20Kgs plus hand baggage at 7kgs
London via LAX - 2 pieces checked in at a max of 23kgs per bag plus 7kgs hand baggage per passenger in one piece.
If you enquire with Air NZ as with other airlines you'll find that one of the checked pieces on the LA route can be up to a max of 32kgs but the max per passenger is still 46kgs and only one over 23kg item per passenger is allowed.
Jan 6th 2008, 8:50 am
#24
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Re: 20 kilos
Downside to flying via USA is that you can't lock your bags can you?
Other options to paying the airline for the excess kilos are: excess baggage and posting it via the normal mail service. At least that way you haven't got heavy cases to lug around.
Other options to paying the airline for the excess kilos are: excess baggage and posting it via the normal mail service. At least that way you haven't got heavy cases to lug around.
Jan 6th 2008, 8:57 am
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Re: 20 kilos
CORRECT!!! And most crappy. 
Thank you Nerine for that good catch. 
You have to leave your locks on there, and they'll "promise" to lock them for you. The number of locks we've had go missing is not funny. 
There are locks which apparently the TSA can unlock and have been authorised by them, so you *should* be able to use those locks when you check in. What I've always done is, once you take your bags over to the TSA after checking-in, wait wait wait until they're done with them, and make sure you witness them locking the bags again.
Yeah. It sucks. Truly, it does.
Not to mention that if you go via the US, for the sake of a few extra kilogrammes, you'll have the delight of having the US Government take your digital photo and your fingerprints, like you were a common criminal. Blech!
Thank you Nerine for that good catch. You have to leave your locks on there, and they'll "promise" to lock them for you. The number of locks we've had go missing is not funny. There are locks which apparently the TSA can unlock and have been authorised by them, so you *should* be able to use those locks when you check in. What I've always done is, once you take your bags over to the TSA after checking-in, wait wait wait until they're done with them, and make sure you witness them locking the bags again.Yeah. It sucks. Truly, it does.
Not to mention that if you go via the US, for the sake of a few extra kilogrammes, you'll have the delight of having the US Government take your digital photo and your fingerprints, like you were a common criminal. Blech!
