[diveinfo] [boom@geekworks.net: Continental baggage embargo]

[Jean-Sebastien Morisset]

----- Forwarded message from Mike Boom <boom@geekworks.net> -----

Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 17:21:33 -0600
From: Mike Boom <boom@geekworks.net>
Reply-To: uw-photo@world.std.com
To: uw-photo@world.std.com
Subject: Continental baggage embargo

My wife and I just got back from a trip to Belize. When we flew out 
from Oakland, we almost received an unpleasant surprise: the 
Continental Airlines clerk accepting our luggage, which had one 
overweight bag, checked to see if a baggage embargo was in effect. If 
it was, we wouldn't be able to take our overweight bag, which 
contained most of my video equipment. Fortunately it wasn't. But if 
it had been, we'd have been stuck at the airport with 15 lbs. of 
excess baggage that we wouldn't have known what to do with.

I'd never heard of a baggage embargo before. It seems that not only 
have airlines dropped weight allowances from 70 lbs. to 50 lbs. per 
bag, but they also -- at times -- refuse to carry anything overweight 
no matter how much you're willing to pay. For details, check this 
Continental web page that's buried deep in their site:

http://www.continental.com/travel/policies/baggage/embargo.asp

Does anyone know if there are other airlines practicing this rather 
nasty policy?

Mike Boom

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