Travel from Gatwick, beware extra costs

[kazmus]

More a warning than AIBU but got caught out by excess baggage costs lately. Only a suitcase each and each one was just over 4kg over. Expected to pay something but not £10 per kilo so an extra £90! Funny thing was on the return journey (from Greece) we had lost the extra weight...didn't realise 2 paperbacks and a shampoo made that much difference! Don't get me started on the extremely obese woman who sailed through without extra charges and spilled over into half my seat:( (Prepares to be flamed by all amply proportioned travellers:) )AIBU to feel just a teeny bit agrieved?

[bubblecoral]

A friend in the travel industry told me that Monarch have recently begun to get stricter on their already measly baggage allowances.

Get yourself certified as a scuba diver, most airlines give you an extra 5 kilos free when you produce a card that says you are a diver. I've used it before on a non diving holiday where I had no scuba gear with me and it's not been questioned!

Made me feel very guilty a few weeks ago when dh and I produced the cards and got allowed and extra 8 kilos between us for free, and there was a couple standing at the desk next to us with a baby that had just been whacked with a £70 charge for being 7 kilos over.

[RockStockandTwoOpenBottles]

[BornInAfrica]

Is the OP a first time traveller then? Can't think of any other reason for being so thick as to not weigh your baggage whether it's Gatwick or Shitsville, USA - every traveller knows to weigh their baggage don't they?

[DontCallMePeanut]

Wow... I do love it when the OP's prove themselves, not only to be stupid, but to be complete bitches as well...

[bubblecoral]

Come off it ladies, surely you can admit that it's worthy of complaint when you are sitting next to someone huge on a tiny airplane seat and they can't help but impose ontt your seat and into your personal space.

No, OP didn't put it in a nice way. But she has a point...

[BornInAfrica]

Does she? Where will it all end? I can't stand smelly people or old men who breathe through their noses or wriggling kids or skinny bony people who smell of cheap perfume and fast sex or any number of hideous human combinations - should none of them fly for that reason?

[Shakirasma]

No she doesn't! How rude are you op!

[ChippingIn]

I can diet - can you do anything to get a brain?

[bubblecoral]

Smelly people also impose their presence on other people on planes, they warrant complaining about too.

Nobody said people with things that are unpleasant for others shouldn't fly, but those of us that have had to put up with someone so large or so smelly on a flight that it really is uncomfortable to be next to them, have every right to complain about it.

It doesn't make me brainless, it makes me someone that quite reasonably wants to be able to fly in comfort without having to restrict myself in the seat I paid for.