Then you went through and bought kilos and kilos of duty free Smirnoff and Bells - yes, the whole thing is a farce. We once had one hand baggage case with around 7kg and the limit was 5kg. No problem I told the girl at the desk, for I have 5kg allowance too, and I have not one gram of hand luggage. Not relevant to this 7kg bag she informed us. So, as we held up a huge queue, she watched us move about half of the 7kg into a carrier bag. She weighed both individually, gave us our boarding passes, watched us put carrier bag B into original bag A, and walk off.
