In Reply to: Garuda....excess baggage charges posted by Tia on Saturday, 31. July 2004 at 15:46 Bali Time:
we were 44 kg over!!!
I was told at check in that would be $US8 per kg After I picked myself off the floor, I asked for luggage back and started removing DVD's as I had no hand luggage. Luckily I had packed a couple of strong plastic bags just in case. However the official said I could only take 9 kg as hand luggage and as he knew the weight already i was stuffed. So a few tears and then I told him i would take one whole bag out and throw it away as it was wasn't worth it he then suggested i could pay something. I gave him 100,000rp ( put it on the desk) and all was ok. he told me he altered the amount. then the plane was cancelled and I wondered if it was our overweight luggage that meant the plane couldn't take off. next time i am not going to shop ha ha