Flyglobesapn Baggage Allowance Question

fairlysure

Hi everyone. I'm hoping someone can help. I am flying to Toronto with globespan next month. There baggage allowance is a pretty paltry 20 kgs but I can purchase an extra 10kgs for £15 per sector, so far so good. However I only want the extra allowance on my return journey (planning on doing some shopping . . . ) but when I try to book this it will only let me pay in Canadian Dollars as it treats this as a one trip from Canada to the UK. Obviously if I do this I wil incur charges from my bank due to the currency difference. Has anybody else had this problem or have a solution?? Cheers

dmg24

Nothing paltry about 20kg ...

Your options are to pay for both legs in GBP, or one leg in Canadian Dollars. This is standard for any of the low cost airlines, indeed some would make you pay for both legs.

Alternatively, you could try calling them?!!

alanrowell

Additional baggage allowance can be purchased in advance at the rate of £15 for 10 kilos per flight sector

which implies that you can

http://www.flyglobespan.com/tandc.asp

Now a related question - they offer a combined luggage weight allowance but has anyone had problems taking most of that as hand luggage?

budgetflyer

fairlysure
At the most your bank will charge you around £2 to do it if its only £15,s worth of extra baggage.
or if its more weight, maybe £1.50 + (up to) 3% of transaction value, so I certainly wouldnt be having sleepless nights over it.

budgetflyer

alanrowell wrote: »

Now a related question - they offer a combined luggage weight allowance but has anyone had problems taking most of that as hand luggage?

Theres a statement further down the t&cs you quoted earlier

I think if bag is within the CAA guidlines you should be ok.
Rule of thumb reasonable weight would be 5 to 10 KG IMO

Unchecked Baggage
7. (a) Baggage which the passenger carries on to the aircraft must fit under seat in front of the passenger or in an enclosed storage compartment in the cabin. Items determined by the Carrier to be of excessive weight or size will not be permitted in the cabin.
(b) Objects not suitable in the opinion of the Carrier, for transport in the cargo compartment (such as, but not limited to, delicate musical instruments and the like) will only be accepted for transportation in the cabin compartment if due notice has been given in advance and permission granted by Carrier. The transport of such objects will be charged for separately.