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IrisG:
I've just been reading our TC ticket booklet, and notice that it
states that the maximum baggage weight for an individual bag is 30kg.
Our personal allowance is 15kg each
Has anyone here ever just combined two allowances in one bag?
I remember in Majorca a few years ago, the Spanish airport people wouldn't accept one bag for two people.
Has anyone here done this for Corfu?
Our individual bags are usually half empty, and are each big enough to take both of our stuff.
It would mean we have around 4kg extra to use.(The weight of the extra empty bag).

Jules:
Thomsons maximum weight is 23 kilos so I would check on your airport website to see what they allow as well.

loftyscot:
Iris

We just returned last week. Our large case was 26kg. The two smaller ones were around 10 kg each, keeping our total combined within limits for three passengers. No questions were asked about the big case at either airport. We flew from Edinburgh. Hope this helps.

Waspman:
This baggage allowance issue is very confusing.

When travelling to Tenerife on 1st May 2011 (with Thomson) we were told by Swissport (at Thomson's check in desk) that a new 25Kg allowance started that day.

The Thomson reps at our hotel knew nothing about this when we arrived and it was only after a week that they did receive notification from Thomson that the maximum allowance was now 25Kg.  I have a copy of their notification showing this with me as I am posting this reply.

I also checked with the Spanish check in desk on our return and they confirmed the same (25Kg max).

On contacting various Thomson branches today they say that the allowance is as stated in their brochures
(23 Kg maximum)

On other websites ie Flybe it's 30Kg maximum.

The best of luck to anyone who can get a definitive answer!!

 

Sellsy:
Iris, similar  to Jules we flew last week with Thompsons from Newcastle who allow 20 k PP with a new advised max of 23k in any one case. 30k seems a lot in this day and age of health and safety etc. I could be mistaken but I recall most airport handlers  had a maximum weight of 28k a couple of years ago, bags around this weight had the red HEAVY stickers placed on them to alert the handlers. As always we were asked how many bags we were checking in,  suggesting many groups may travel with less than one bag each? Our bags  were quite heavy this year as we were self catering so we used our hand luggage maximum 5k. 2 of the 3 bags were x rayed twice and hand checked by security, no problems but I dont think I will carry as much in the cabin in future.

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