What a great post Father. I'm going from Glasgow but of course so much applied to me. Thanks.
What a great post Father. I'm going from Glasgow but of course so much applied to me. Thanks.
Helen
Thank you for that extremely informative post Father. It has certainly set my mind at ease with regard to the lack of time between flights, especially now I know there are other flights to catch if the worst happens. Can I just ask if the baggage allowance is 46kg on the Continental flights.
re baggage allowance i just checked that yesterday and was told the allowance was 2 bags each , each one should be no more than 23kg....
Just had a letter today from Charter travel , to say Continental have changed their luggage policy to only 1 case of 23Kg extra cases are being charged at $50 they say this is from the 1st Sept .I am going to check this as we booked 5 months ago so I.m not happy that when I go over in Dec my luggage allowance is being halfed .
Fropm the Continental website:-
The fee to check second bags for economy travel between Europe and the 50 U.S., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada is $50 on tickets purchased on or after Aug. 27, 2009 for travel on or after Sept. 15, 2009. The fee is $45 for second bags that are checked and pre-paid at our website.
Looks like all purchased tickets will be OK
Clare R
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Father
I have to say, if anyone wants the extra allowance, $45 seems a reasonable price.[/quote]But it's $90 for a return trip and that's each passenger who wants to check another bag. These previously free allowances can easily add 15-20% to your ticket now. If the airlines put their prices up by that much across the board, we'd be up in arms over it.
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Father
In practice, I suspect the majority of travellers to Florida would only wish to pay the extra on the return journey, when loaded down with all the shopping goodies [rasta].
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In that instance you'd have to buy the bag over there as well because it isn't the weight that matters, it's the number of bags. You'll pay extra for the additional bag outbound even if it's empty.
My advice for anybody now would be to buy a cabin bag of the naximum permitted size and take it onboard as carry-on. While there's technically a weight restriction on those, in my experience they never seek to enforce it. Of course, we'll then get to the dreadful situation encountered on US domestic flights where it takes half an hour to board 100 passengers.[msnsad]
Afraid my bugbear with travelling via Newark to Florida is having to do the domestic flight with American's who have NO idea what cabin luggage is and enforcement by crew is none. On many occasions I have seen passengers put their 'cabin' luggage in the first available empty overhead locker they see irrespective of row number and then saunter down the plane. Whilst the UK restrictions on cabin luggage is harsh it does appear to work.
Clare R
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