“Baggage Woes: Tips and Tricks for Avoiding Excess Fees at the Airport”

Have you experienced that the luggage belt won’t start when you check in your suitcase at the airport?

The reasons for this can be several.

It is most likely that your luggage weighs too much in relation to the ticket class.

Then the airlines have put in a block that means you have to go to the manned counter and pay a fee for the excess, or pay via the app, before you can check in your luggage again. And it can be expensive. Very expensive.

Costly obesity

The price can be up to NOK 800 per stretch. So here it is smart to follow closely.

It often doesn’t take more than a kilogram too much, before the luggage belt refuses to start.

And now a Facebook post from 2 October 2019 has appeared which is going viral these days. Filipinos dress there Gel Rodriguez wears clothes on clothes from the suitcase, to avoid obesity. In this way, she reduces the weight of her luggage from 9 kilograms to 6.5 kg and does not have to pay extra. The tip does not go down well with the airlines.

More on this trick later.

Money flies

The weighting practices are slightly different from company to company, and my experience is that the low-cost companies are the least flexible.

In case of excess weight, the airlines Norwegian, Wizz Air and Ryanair charge per kg excess weight. The other companies charge a fixed amount for overweight. The maximum limit is 32 kg per package.

One of the reasons for this is that the airlines sell the tickets cheaply and want “alternative sources of income”.

The price per kilo for overweight therefore varies from company to company. But, one thing is certain: the hundreds fly away quickly.

The solution

There are several solutions to the “problem” of being overweight. One is to pack less luggage, which should be manageable for anyone who comes with half a moving load when going on a week’s holiday.

The other is to prepay for more expensive tickets or extra baggage.

Full Syden argument

Which is far cheaper than being surprised by the excess weight – and the price – at the airport.

Empty the suitcase

The last one, which is easy to forget for many – and which works well if the excess weight is of a moderate nature, i.e. one to two kilos, is this:

Take the heaviest clothes or shoes out of your check-in baggage and wear these items instead of sending them as checked baggage.

If you have other items that weigh between 500 and 1000 grams, and which are allowed to be taken through the security check, it is better to keep them in your jacket pocket and send them as expensive excess weight.

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This is ok

– Your ticket type determines how much luggage you can take with you. If you are told that you have luggage that weighs too much at check-in, you can of course change a little, and it is fine to put on your outerwear, says senior communications advisor, Eline Hyggen Skari at Norwegian to DinSide.

– If it is much more than that, it will not be good, and the traveler will have to pay for the excess weight, and concludes:

– A plane has limited space on board and the rules everyone must follow help make the journey comfortable for everyone.

Hello, my name is Odd Roar Lange and I am a travel journalist for DinSide and Dagbladet. Do you have a tip about flights for me? Or do you have an experience, a question or a smart suggestion that others should know about?