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BMI Baby Baggage allowance
itzmee
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I have just booked our first ever family holiday abroad for 4 of us to go to South of France for a week. I have booked flights separately from the accommodation and am unsure about the baggage allowance with BMI Baby. They state 20kg per person (will be 18kg when we go away) per person. OH seems to think that we can take just one large suitcase and pool our baggage allowance so we have only paid for one checked bag. Does anyone know if this is right? We're not planning on taking loads of unnecessary stuff with us and I will put a change of clothes in our hand luggage in case the baggage goes astray! I really don't know how the baggage allowance works as I haven't flown in over 20 years. I have checked BMI baby web site and I think we can do this but they don't make it too clear and it costs a fortune to call their customer line to check. Thanks in advance for your answers.
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The maximum bag weight they allow is 32kg they will refuse to carry a bag hevier than that (And will make you buy an extra bag to split the weight)
From Website
For health and safety reasons bmibaby can not accept any individual item exceeding 32 kilos or with combined dimensions of more than 81cms (height), 119cms (width) and 119cms (depth). This weight limit does not apply to mobility equipment.
So yes you can combine to one LARGE bag but keep the total below 32kg for the bag otherwise you will have problems, and they can be fussy by as much as .5kg over.
(Make the most of your hand baggage allowance) you can take 10kg each as long as it is
Each passenger (except infants) is permitted one standard piece of hand luggage, with maximum dimensions 55x40x20cm and a maximum weight of 10kg. Government restrictions apply, please see below for details.Over 100k miles of Electric Motoring and rising,0 -
Hi. As you have only paid for 1 checked bag you can only take up to a weight of 20kg for this bag. Anything over (up to 32kg) will be charged as excess baggage. If you think you may go over by 1 kg it would be worth adding an extra checked bag which you can do by calling call centre and paying £ 12. Have a look on BMI site and it will explain all you need to know about baggage allowance. Have a great trip0
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BMI doing thorought checks at Glasgow airport along with other airlines today All airlines using hand luggage weighs and checking for size. Not worth the risk better off booking the extra case.0
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Hi. As you have only paid for 1 checked bag you can only take up to a weight of 20kg for this bag. Anything over (up to 32kg) will be charged as excess baggage. If you think you may go over by 1 kg it would be worth adding an extra checked bag which you can do by calling call centre and paying £ 12. Have a look on BMI site and it will explain all you need to know about baggage allowance. Have a great trip
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Baby clearly state you can pool allowances - and a single bag can be up to 32kg so a single persons allowance is 20/18kg 2 people can have 40/36kg although the maximum in a bag is 32.
So with 2 people and ONE PAID bag you can have uptp 32kg as a pooled allowance, over 32kg you need 2 bags. used this system many times, a call to BMI Customer services will confirm.Over 100k miles of Electric Motoring and rising,0 -
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Baby clearly state you can pool allowances - and a single bag can be up to 32kg so a single persons allowance is 20/18kg 2 people can have 40/36kg although the maximum in a bag is 32.
So with 2 people and ONE PAID bag you can have uptp 32kg as a pooled allowance, over 32kg you need 2 bags. used this system many times, a call to BMI Customer services will confirm.
This is why I wasn't sure as it seems to be open to interpretation. BMI Baby helpline is 34p per minute :eek: and I have read lots of horror stories about people waiting ages to get through to them. I would be interested to hear from anyone who has flown with BMI Baby.0 -
Never had any problem myself.,
We transport a studio lighting kit in an aluminium flight box that weighs 29kg and have managed ot combine it and pay 1 bag fee about 8 times now.
Once only the check in agent was not sure but was confirmed by the Duty supervisor in 1 min flat.
For peace of mind you should give them a call
Try 0207 979 2250 Saves paying the premium fee. just wait for the menu of options.
Hope that helpsOver 100k miles of Electric Motoring and rising,0 -
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Baby clearly state you can pool allowances -
From the bmibaby terms and conditions:Passengers travelling together on the same booking reservation, who have individually purchased bags, can pool their baggage weight allowance up to the equivalent of 20kgs per passenger. Once this limit is reached then standard overweight charges as detailed below will apply.
To me that sentence leaves no questions. You can only pool checked baggage allowance if you have BOTH payed for checked baggage. If you haven't payed a checked baggage fee, then how do you have any checked baggage allowance?!0 -
If you only purchase 1 hold luggage you can only have 1 x 20kg, the other 3 only have hand luggage.
If you purchase 2 hold luggage then you have 40kg which you can then put up to 32 kg in 1 suitcase and the other 8kg in another suitcase anything over the 40kg in the hold luggage will be charged at about 8 euros per kilo for being overweight.
Regarding the weight allowance changing i was under the impression that you got the allowance you had paid for at the time of booking (please correct me if i am wrong) as my parents booked last year when the summer flights first came out to go in september there was no mention then of bmi changing there allowances to 18kg so they have paid for 20kg i think thats what they get when they travel. Only people who purchase when the new weights come in get 18kg.0 -
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Baby clearly state you can pool allowances - and a single bag can be up to 32kg so a single persons allowance is 20/18kg 2 people can have 40/36kg although the maximum in a bag is 32.
So with 2 people and ONE PAID bag you can have uptp 32kg as a pooled allowance, over 32kg you need 2 bags. used this system many times, a call to BMI Customer services will confirm.
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I think you are interpreting wrongly wha bmi say. I am not disputing that bmi states you can pool your allowance, but, it clearly states
Passengers travelling together on the same booking reservation, who have individually purchased bags, can pool their baggage weight allowance up to the equivalent of 20kgs* per passenger.
I do not doubt that you have taken over the allowance when only purchasing 1 bag, I would put that down to good fortune and bmi staff not knowing their own rules.
OP enjoy the trip :beer:0 -
Thanks everyone for your responses. It is interesting how everyone interprets the terms and conditions.
Vicky, thanks for that phone no. We called BMI baby today and got straight through. Customer helpline confirmed what everyone else said though - as we only paid for one bag then we can only take up to a max of 20kg in that bag, though if we paid for another we could then pool our allowance (40kg) with a max of 32kg in one bag and the remaining 8kg in another bag. So we have booked another bag just to be on the safe side and it means I don't have to be so careful about what I pack - how much does a sink weigh lol?!!
Stephb34 - BMI Baby terms state: Please note that on all flights departing from 1st April 2009 the baggage allowance per customer will be reduced to 18kgs. We're flying in May so our allowance will be reduced. I think we need to go and buy some lightweight suitcases as the big one we have weighs 5kg on its own!!
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