Flew Bangkok to Phuket yesterday with Lion Air. Had 2 bags for carry on. Bags where non standard size and where weighed in at under 7 kg each and tagged. Issued boarding tickets and good to go.

When we where seated a young lady boarded carrying 4 bags of various sizes and a cuddly toy. See struggled to put them in the overhead bins and couldn’t even lift the heaviest bag. I put the bag up and it was well over 7kg. She then settled down and cuddled the toy for the duration of the flight. We did laugh and even the Thais where amused.

I’m assuming that the bags where not checked in as they had no tags attached.

Moral  of the story is ‘you pays your money and you takes your chance’.

 

You should invest in a cuddly toy ey !

13 minutes ago, Liverpudlian said:

You should invest in a cuddly toy ey !

Or the young lady.

Anyone with an oversize or heavy bag for cary on should be banned from flying - for life !

29 minutes ago, canopus1969 said:

Anyone with an oversize or heavy bag for cary on should be banned from flying - for life !

 

Yes... Or just executed in the departure hall, that'll learn them....

39 minutes ago, canopus1969 said:

Anyone with an oversize or heavy bag for cary on should be banned from flying - for life !

Or sack the staff manning the departure gate ????

I recall when we moved here 4 years ago, I carried 8 carry on bags on a Thai Airways international flight from Sydney with eyebrows raised, but no one said anything and I believe we were within our rights, at that time, thanks to my genius wife wanting to take everything with her, thank God she left the kitchen sink behind.

 

I would wheel one bag in front of me down the aisle which had another bag on top of it, it was one of those Ikea type bags where you can fold up easily (2 bags per paying customer was the rule) there were 4 of us, me the wife and two kids, then I had one bag behind me with the same type of Ikea bag on top of it, so there were 4 bags, all the bags in total per two weighed 7 kilos as checked at the counter, and then I had two other laptop style bags around my neck crossing over to each side of me so they wouldn't fall off, that's 6 bags, then I had my back pack to the back of me and one to the front of me, one backpack had jackets in it and the other baby's stuff like water, powder, milk formula, toys etc etc, you were allowed to take those, one because of the baby, and the other because you had jackets/jumpers in them which you were allowed to carry on, but my genius wife put them in the bag for ease, and they were not weighed, however these days I note the laptop bags have to be the size of the laptop bags, thank God.

 

Yes it was way over the top (for me), I was exhausted by the time we got to our seats after dropping the pram off at the plane, the pram was carrying everything for me, then I had to get all the stuff on and step up to the plane and find our seats steering through the narrow aisle, and then when exiting the plane, there was the pram waiting for me, hallelujah, so I filled it to the brim again, I remember as I was the last passenger getting off of the plane the captain was heading out at the same time with his staff and said to me, big family, with me smiling to him with exhaustion and shame, then when I caught up with my wife and the kids at the carousel, I recall the words that I said to her with a smile and grinding teeth, next time you carry this stuff and I will take the kids, she knew at that time how pi-ssed I was.

 

These days it's two small carry ons and a bag each for laptops etc etc, not going through that again.

Edited February 16, 20206 yr by 4MyEgo