Re: Anyone Carry Gear on Lufthansa Air? Bill? Roger? Anyone? :)


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tim (back at home) wrote:
"Alan Street" <agstreet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <oBabg.1468$rS6.417@fed1read11>, Mark² < here)@cox..net>
wrote:

? Alan Street wrote:

? > ?
? > ?
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? > I often carry two bodies (D2X & D70), a laptop, four lenses, extra
? > batteries and misc other goodies in a similar backpack. It's at least
? > 25 lbs full, and I regularily fly on UA, LH and SQ. I've never had a
? > problem with it as a carry-on. The biggest problem I have is when I
? > take a small turbo-prop, it's sometimes a little too thick to fit
into
? > the overheads.
?
? Is "LH" Lufthansa, and are they European flights?

LH is Lufthansa, and I'm referring to both trans-oceanic flights and
flights within Europe.

? I'm not concerned about UA, as I'm flying with them on my first two
flights
? and have checked with them.
? They don't weight carry-ons...Lufthansa apparently might.

In my experience, they also don't weigh carry-ons (actually, I've never
had a carry-on bag weighed).


Either you are lucky or the rules are different where
you live.

Whilst some time ago I could say that my carry on
was never weighed, now it almost always is.

I live/travel in Europe and as well as the weigh-in
at check-in, some airports have started enforcing
the weight rules at the security check (presumably
to stop people leaving their overweight carry on
with a friend whilst going up to the check-in with
nothing and then trying to sneak it on later, which
a lot of people do do).
The girl in front of me at STN last week came
close be being rejected at the security check for
overweight check-in, so they do check.

It is not clear why they are being more strict with
carry-on.

Perhaps:
With the rise of LCC and cheaper fares, airlines
are trying to make more money out of excess
luggage. But if it were this, you would have though
that they would be tolerant of over-weight carry-on
for pax with no check-in and enforce a total weight
rather than a carry on weight, but security gate staff
can't make this assessment. Checked luggage costs
the airline real money and insisting someone check
in a 10Kg bag that the pax would like to carry, is not
economic for the airline (Air Berlin insisted that I did
this on the same trip as above)

Or perhaps it could be a security increase thing
after 9/11 (that has a lot to asnwer for!)

tim

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Security is a silly point to try to regulate carry on items. They can
only enforce the least restrictive policy for any airline and any ticket
that can be reached from that security point. That would make it
uselessly liberal in most cases.

The attendent took account of the airline the pax was
using before deciding that her 11kilo bag was OK.

It was overweight but only just.

It would have been valid for some airlines and
completely OTT for others.

At many airports the destination problem doesn't apply
as flights may leave from different terminals with different
security points.

tim






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