This past week, my wife's German 'buddy' (from the gym)....got ready to return from a Greek isle vacation (of 2 weeks). She's at the counter to check-in the bag...having weighed, and the clerk says...9 KG over the limit (20 US pounds).
Well...because it's one of those discount airlines...you get heavily 'punished'.
The clerk responds.....90 Euro as a extra fee.
This starts up an argument with this German female (mid-50s) and continues on for a while....while the others behind her are focused on getting checked-in and past security.
In the end.....the airlines get their 90 Euro.
Back thirty years ago....I didn't think about this BS much. Occasionally, I might have been two or three KG over, and the airline just said....here, pay us $15 extra.
In the past decade, this weight thing on baggage now matters.
In 2019, on four trips that we took.....I always enclosed a simple scale into a carry-on bag, and weighed bags on a constant basis. If this was an extended trip (3 weeks)....I paid for an extra bag or got a higher category of travel.
But part of me wants to go back to the whole art of bag packing and why people probably put way too many items in a bag for a simple ten day trip. You ought to start....is this list of items to carry....really too much?
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