Airline Max baggage allowance
 

Hi All

Do you know which airlines allowance maximum baggage i.e. 2 check-in bags per person from London to Newark.

Also any recommendation to send 3 or 4 large suitcase/boxes to New Jersey.

Thanks You

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With BA it's two bags each if you go at least premium economy( although the excess baggage fees in economy are far less than the normal cost to upgrade), at least it was going to Tampa. Also I recently used sendmybag.com for 2 large heavy suit cases.

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Cabin of travel? Status with airline/alliance? Not enough info to answer.

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We sent two metal airfreight trunks ahead using the same shipping company that sent our main shipment of furniture and household chattels. The cost was peanuts compared to the main shipment, which was 90% of a half (20ft) freight container.

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Thanks ...

Mr Pulaski i have send a you private message as well on BE

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Note most airlines allow up to 8 bags to go with you. The first two are free, and the others are charged as excess baggage, but it may be cost efficient to go this route (instead of taking them to a shipper, arranging all that, getting it delivered, etc). Just depends on what you are bringing.

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For practical purposes also depends on the total number of bags per group. When I flew over here it was four of us with two bags each plus hand luggage, while I could have taken more on the plane getting 10 large cases to and from the airport would have been quite a challenge. Plus in my case the sendmybag.com rates where cheaper than the excess baggage ones.

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I routinely get 4 bags for free, even when I'm not in business, hence my question to OP re cabin and status.

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When I was relocated to the USA, my company paid for a one-way Virgin Atlantic flight in Upper Class, and I made full use of the three 32kg suitcase baggage allowance. I could have got most of my luggage shipped in my air shipment but it was helpful to have more with me as soon as I first landed.

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Exactly. Due to my husband's status with BA we got 12 cases/boxes on the flight free of charge.

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I've been a member of BE for almost 15 years and posted over 30,000 times. How many bags can I take? :unsure:

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...but I bet you didn't fly across the pond 1st class, almost every week, for 2 years.;)

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Does BE run an airline? :confused:

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You obviously edited my post. :sneaky:

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Obviously so, because you never make a mistake, .... just like my wife. :rolleyes: And just like Mrs P, you don't hesitate to concoct some way to make it look like my fault! :(
You obviously edited your post too! :lol:

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Wait, people use commercial plane tickets to bring their crap over? Bit odd, would've thought those coming over with work would've had their stuff shipped separately. Clearly, some stingy companies out there. Wife and I had about 100 boxes of varying sizes and weight between us, in addition to furniture and that was only a few years' worth of living together in the UK

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We had the majority of our stuff come by ship after a month and some by air after a week - but still used 3 cases each when we first moved over. Seemed a lot easier than having to wait for things.

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This. We shipped our own stuff (not a company relo), but still wanted more stuff to tide us over for the six weeks until our main shipmates arrived. We air-freighted two trunks with some tableware and kitchenware, extra clothing, bedding, a few books, etc.

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I never shipped anything, and also only checked a few bags for moving things like ski's and a brompton bike, most small/heavy stuff like paperwork and books I brought as carry on over the course of 20 or so flights. Took a bag I could fold, full of stuff on the LON-NYC flight and then put the empty bag in my rucksack for the NYC-LON flight. I would not call a company that pays for businessfirst tickets stingy, but I guess it is United airlines so I could see that argument.

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I'm sure that there is, but I feel that my company was very generous. I ballparked that it must have spent $50K+ on bringing (just) me over, once I accounted for the law firm's fees ($20K+), (very good) movers and the fully insured shipment of goods (a generous air shipment allowance plus (up to) a full 20 foot cargo container on a ship; $10K+), one way business class flight in (transatlantic) Virgin Atlantic Upper Class and (domestic) Delta business ($6K - the one way was as expensive as a return flight, given how late that it was booked), 7 weeks of (corporate) housing in a brand new, 1200 square foot apartment ($4K), 7 weeks of car rental with unlimited gas (approaching $1K with rental fees, full insurance, and gas), a third-party "relocation specialist" (who didn't do a whole lot but still cost lots of $$$s - $1K), and a "miscellaneous expense allowance" of one month of my US salary at the time of landing ($10K). I would hardly call that stingy.

I had my pick of a few airlines (British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, United, or Delta) and a few routes, and I chose Virgin, purely for the incredibly nice 'Clubhouse' (lounge) at London Heathrow. :D

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The Clubhouse was fun, and when they still had the US helicopter transfer instead of the Limo that and the free haircut in the lounge could tip it. But as a *A flyer United was the smartest place to put all the miles...

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Our company shipped as much stuff over as we wanted. But it was picked up 5 days before our departure. We preferred to have some things through to the end and knowing that the airline would take them made it an easy choice.

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Well nowadays that depends I guess. Say you fly United for work (e.g. no other choice), but who do you like/is convenient to fly for pleasure?

I fly 80,000 miles a year on BA for work, but there's little to no chance of me using them long-haul for fun.

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Exactly.

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Anyone but United, mainly Singapore, Air NZ, Thai, ANA, Turkish even Lufthansa on the right plane.

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Well, hellloooo sailor! (the mind boggles as to what 'stuff' tides you over until the 'shipmates' arrive!!!) ;)

On topic:
Cheap and cheerful economy (world traveller) class with BA gives you 75kg in three bags for free. One checked, one carry-on for the overhead lockers and one laptop bag, tricky to utilise the full weight allotment but doable :lol:
I seem to recall that it was about £60 for a second checked bag and somewhere around the £100 mark for the third and subsequent others, up to a maximum of ten checked bags. (I may be wrong with my numbers but permissible sizes and fees can all be easily found on the BA site)