V-Flyer

Planning to fly to JFK on only hand luggage.

Two questions is the 6KG rule enforced?

The VS web site http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/gb/en/tr ... 712-_-Link

States

"From 31 March the hand baggage allowance is changing, please see our latest news for more information"

But there is nothing on the link referring to the changes – does anybody know the changes?

if you arent checking any bags and are using OLCI just go straight through security and you should be ok...I have never been picked up on size/weight at boarding, they are too busy. just dont take the mickey and turned up with a ski bag full of the family silver ,like a lot of the yanks do

I read a post about this the other day.... up to 10 Kg I think was mentioned.

As to is it enforced.. again there was another thread that touched on this too... sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. For your hand luggage, I say pack light and check in any suitcases. By the time you get through Border Protection at JFK your case will be waiting for you

Come to think of it, where has that other thread gone?

It got deleted. I know not why. It was 10kg that was mentioned which puts us the same as Ryanair. Marvellous.

Just back from Vegas and on both flights they checked the weight of the hand luggage, even handbags.

Still not BA's impressive 23kg, but obviously a step in the right direction.

Increasing to 10kg in PE and Y.

23kg is ridiculous!

As is 10kg, somewhere in the middle makes sense.

Joey,
I think by the time you have got thru JFK your cases have prob dissolved

10kg is a step in the right direction, I could probably do a week away with that.

I just don't understand why VS won't match BA and offer 23kg, but if you can't lift it into the bins yourself then it has to be checked.

just back from Oz hand luggage never weighed

Finally have posted the full notice of the increase: http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/gb/en/tr ... -news.html

Up to 10Kg in ECO and PE. UC stays the same. Wonder if it will be more aggressively enforced from now on then

Only today I was booking a flight and the sales operative had no knowledge of the increase in weight when I asked - he actually put me on hold to find out from his manager!!

Hear it first on V-Flyer!! y)

Thank goodness! I was worried I was going to have to still take all my domestic flights in BA - eek! Try never to check bags in for domestic so I don't have to wait an hour at Heathrow to collect them.

Great news - I'm off to book several little red flights

MedwayControl wrote:Try never to check bags in for domestic so I don't have to wait an hour at Heathrow to collect them.

Great news - I'm off to book several little red flights

That's a T5 thing. It is ridiculous how long domestic checked bags take to arrive in T5 especially considering the domestic belts are just yards away from the domestic gates and the actual aircraft. T1 never takes that long even though the gates are much further away.

10kg is handy for carrying photo gear.

10kg is handy for carrying 10kg of anything !

Silver Fox wrote:10kg is handy for carrying 10kg of anything !

And 10kg is better than 6kg but not as good, or as ridiculous, as BA's 23kg :0

15kg would just be about right imho. My experience with the 23kg limit on LHR-TLV was one I will do my best never to repeat. Madness, sheer madness. Even compared to the madness that goes on with the Americans and the rollaboards they try to bring on.

Silver Fox wrote:15kg would just be about right imho. My experience with the 23kg limit on LHR-TLV was one I will do my best never to repeat. Madness, sheer madness. Even compared to the madness that goes on with the Americans and the rollaboards they try to bring on.

I'd go with that - whenever I do weigh my rollaboard it comes in at 13-14 kg (the bag itself must be 3 or 4 kg so 20 lbs or so (in old money) is I think about right for a week away, suit, shirts, shoes, toiletries and the like.

I agree 20 kilos+ is a recipe for disaster, but up to 15 is simply pragmatic!

23kg on BA is more often than not madness on any route TLV being it would seem one of the worst with gate staff going around and making you check in hand luggage