Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Flights, Airlines and Airports => Flights to Dalaman and Turkey, Airlines and Airports => Topic started by: honeycombe on February 14, 2015, 10:01:49 AM
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Anyone travelled from Gatwick to Dalaman recently and can advise how strict they are with weight and size of hand baggage please. Wondering if they are now weighing the hand baggage?
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You'd need to say which airline for an answer to that...
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No matter which airline, very I would hope.
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Hi, we flew from Manchester recently with Thomas Cook and they did weigh our bags. However, Thomas Cook allows 6kgs now.
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And 6kgs ain't much once you've included the weight of a 'carry on' suitcase !!!
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The many times we have travelled to Dalaman. I can think of a few times when hand luggage was weighed in the U.K. It just depends on how busy the airline are with passengers. I remember them weighing our hand luggage a couple of years ago and Phil was a little bit over, they made him take out a book and put it in his pocket. As soon as we got through, he put it back in his bag.
I also remember them weight hand luggage at Dalaman and making a couple pay £16.00 per kilo excess as they had overweight hand luggage and their suitcases were just on the limit, so they could not transfer anything from their hand luggage into their suitcases. They had to pay for 3 kilos excess.
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No weight limit with EasyJet, providing you keep within the specified size limits & you can lift your bag into the overhead locker, unaided 8)
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I gave up with the cabin bag sized suitcase, and used a big Tesco bag for life. Not very classy but it worked for me, as it weighed about 2 grammes of my 6 kilos!
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I was going to do the same Angela as my bag for life weighed nothing and my hand luggage case weighed 3 kilo with nothing in it..
However Debenhams had a sale on recently and had luggage by Tripp so I bought a hand luggage bag that weighs 0.6 kilo I'm really pleased with it :)
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Ah thanks folks, this is for a Thomas Cook flight
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I flew Thomas Cook in November from Manchester. I booked hold luggage as their 6kg hand luggage limit wouldn't do me for a week even though I pack light (on other airlines with 10kg cabin limits I don't bother with hold luggage).
Nobody weighed any cabin bags and some people had at least 10kgs and were not challenged.
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I flew Monarch from Manchester early November. My hand luggage was weighed & was told it was 0.5kg over & would need to put something in my hold luggage, as it was 0.7kgs short.
I spent the time, until the flight was due to board, shopping, & must have added 5 - 6 kgs, after all there is a Spar in arrivals, with a tempting array of cheese & sausages. :P
Arrived to board the plane & found that there were 6 (yes 6) passengers & as many cabin attendant. So why was there all the fuss over 500grams ???
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This may sound like a very stupid question but why do people, not just honeycombe, ask how strictly the rules are enforced.
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Because they wish to exceed the allowance H and wonder if they will get caught.
I have to admit that if I knew they didn't weight check I would exceed the allowance also. ;)
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For me bewva it's not the weight that's necessarily the issue. It's the size. I am thoroughly fed up with people trying to put "hand luggage" that is bigger than my hold luggage in the overhead lockers. And worse yet not going near it till they land at Dalaman.
If you don't need something from your hand luggage during the flight then put it in your hold luggage. Simple.
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Rubbish!
These days hand luggage is an alternative to (charged for) hold luggage - or even just an extension of the hold baggage allowance. They started it by being so tight on allowance and monitoring it mercilessly. Easyjet regularly ask if anyone will put their cabin baggage in the hold free of charge because they have too much for the overhead storage available. They caused this by making hold luggage an add on!
I regularly fly for one or two nights away and get everything into a cabin size case because I refuse to pay for a suitcase (even if the company are paying) - and guess what? Everyone else on the flight had the same idea. There aren't more overhead lockers these days, but there is substantially more cabin baggage for the reasons given.
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Bullocks !
So you would allow any size of "hand luggage"
Besides I had assumed that we were discussing holiday flights and not business ones.
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Poppycock!
I do the same on holiday flights too so there :p
Where did I say I would allow hand baggage of any size? You said if you don't need it on the flight put it in the hold and that is ridiculous. If I'm allowed 5kg/6kg/10kg/any weight as long as the bag dimensions conform, I'm filling it with 5kg/6kg/10kg/any weight as long as the bag dimensions conform and as I never get up during a flight I won't be needing any of it till I am at my destination - and by the way, whether I need it on the flight or not is none of your business!
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Can I hold the handbags for the pair of you :o 8) :o
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No need Peter, they should fit in the overhead lockers. ;) ;)
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Ah thanks folks, this is for a Thomas Cook flight
Thomas Cook seem to be quite strict with hand luggage and they will quite often have one of their staff check your carry on luggage as you wait to check in. On the plus side they do allow one duty free carrier bag in addition to your hand luggage....
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If I'm allowed 5kg/6kg/10kg/any weight as long as the bag dimensions conform, I'm filling it with 5kg/6kg/10kg/any weight as long as the bag dimensions conform
Agreed :)
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Great, I knew I was right!
Just to look at this from another angle...
If you didn't have to pay to put a suitcase in the hold, I would be doing the opposite of what I described above - I'd be packing my suitcase and travelling without any hand baggage at all. So will you further agree that if there is any problem with the amount of cabin baggage being taken onto flights, it is a situation brought about by the airlines and not the passengers :)
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I'll get back to you :)
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I don't see what difference 1 or 2 kg makes in Hold Luggage or hand luggage if they don't bother weighing passengers!!
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That is another can of worms you have opened AOK. However, I agree that they should start to weigh passengers too.
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I don't
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You are not what I mean Keith. It is passengers who are grossly over weight. Like the man who got on one of our flights, he was so big and lucky there were three empty seats just opposite us. The flight attendants put in ths row by himself with all the armrests up and his wife and grown up kids behind him. When the meals came around his wife moved next to him and had to feed him his meal as he was too big and was taking up so much room he could not manage to get hold of the plate to feed himself.
Phil and I just remarked, what if there had been no spare seats, image being put next to him ???
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Dodgy ground!
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I can't imagine the pain and embarrassment I would feel at being weighed to board a plane and then being charged extra per kilo!! :-[
What exactly is "grossly" overweight? 1) Spilling over one seat just a bit, 2) Could really do with two seats or 3) A three seater like above guy?
Seating is made ridiculously narrow and I have even heard skinny-minnies complain so don't be too quick to blame us pudgies because there is no wriggle room.
And the first person to say "do something about it if you're overweight" gets a virtual slap ..... >:(
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Having just flown back from Manchester to Dalaman today with Thomas Cook.....
My hold case was 1.1kg over the 20kg limit. My hand luggage was 1.5kg under. The check-in lady said I would have to take something small and put it in my - already rammed- handbag (not a particularly large one) to get it under 21kg and avoid a £15 charge for excess baggage.
My travel companion, who lives in Koyceğiz and whom I met at Leeds train station at 3.15am as we were both waiting, was 3kg over on her hold luggage. She was at the next check-in desk and it wasn't even queried by the lady there.
Not impressed by the double standards.
Nor was I impressed by the chaos that ensued on both outbound and return flights as no, there wasn't anywhere near enough room to store all hand luggage in the overhead lockers. People's bags were far from their seats and some had to be stashed with the cabin crew's items.
It took an age to get off the plane because passengers were fighting their way through to retrieve their bags etc.
I understand people don't want to pay for hold luggage and I don't know what the solution is - but it's an increasingly ridiculous situation in my view.