What's with all the Airlines putting up restrictions on the number of baggages on could carry .The new rule requires all passengers to pay $25 on their second checking baggage as long as it confirms to a maximum weight of 50 pounds. In fact, now all major airlines in the US impose a fine of $50 if any of your check in baggage exceeds 50 pounds(23 Kgs) and $100 if it exceeds 70 pounds.
Amazing, the things they come out with to make a few extra $$$$ and if you ask anyone why do you subject the airline passengers to this, phat comes the reply "rising fuel prices".
Well I do not wish to comment on that . I just wanted to share my experience of carrying excess baggage without paying for it. I checked in my baggage after weighing both of them and making sure that it is not exceeding 50 pound, for the reassurance of my airline pilot (that's wat the ground staff would say anyways).
Instead of sending my checked in baggage through the conveyor belts at the check in counter itself I was told to take my baggage all by myself and drop it at the end of the floor where the ground staff would pick up my baggage and send it through the conveyor belts.
Now my "mallu" brain went on overdrive mode and started scanning the vicinity for any ground staff looking at me. As luck would have it, no one was around . So, I along with two of my buddies(Ajoy Naveen and Umesh) stuffed my baggage with some extra things including books(that is minimum a of 10 pounds) which I was planning to carry as part of my Cabin luggage. The airline just allowed me 2 cabin baggage and I had four ;-). I had to leave one cabin baggage behind and that was my sleeping bag.
This हेरा -फेरी (golmaal) is possible only if you are traveling by a particular airways which I would be glad to share with my friends
2 comments:
finally! the mallu brain versus US airline carriers, good job, i'm proud of u
Danks. Suaaaaaai mere bacche,its fun to get cheap and dirty at times (all the time in my case) . U ain't living it up till you find out how low you can go, after that when you look it yourself, you are this totally new person .In short " A cheap pig" who is proud to be rightly so.
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