[diveinfo] [moelrich@cox.net: Re: Continental baggage embargo]

[Jean-Sebastien Morisset]

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Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 20:28:23 -0400
From: Mike Oelrich <moelrich@cox.net>
Reply-To: uw-photo@world.std.com
To: uw-photo@world.std.com
Subject: Re: Continental baggage embargo

Hmmmm, based on how I read it, this is another example of agents not 
understanding their own policies (didn't Continental mistakenly hold a 
list member over in Hawaii not too long ago because they misunderstood 
Indonesian visa/passport requirements?).  According to the linked table 
(which, admittedly isn't 100% clear) the embargo for Belize prohibits 
excess bags but allows overweight bags.  Each destination is different 
so you need to be careful.  For example, during the embargo times for 
Antigua, no excess bags and no overweight bags.  This is good info for 
travel planning.  It also looks like just one more thing we'll all have 
to print out and take along with us to keep them honest -- sigh . . .

Mike

Mike Boom wrote:
>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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