American to charge for FIRST checked bag.

[Stan4dSteph]

Yep. In some places if it doesn't look too obvious, they won't weigh it. I flew Aer Lingus from CDG to Dublin, and they weighed my cabin bag. Luckily I was allowed a personal item too, so I had some things in there that would have added weight to the other bag. One trick is to have a coat with big pockets and stick stuff in there.

It's just so much more stressful now to try and figure out how to whittle everything down to meet requirements. I'd just rather pay the fee and be done with it, but I won't be happy about it.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by Alex

I'm more annoyed by Virgin's carry on policy. You get one bag per person. Not a bag and a purse or a bag and a camera bag or a bag and a computer bag. One bag. And it can't weight more than 13 pounds. My "mandatory" electronic gear is about 4 pounds total, the gag is a pound itself. So I get about 8 pounds of clothes for a two week trip.

That's a change. I've traveled on Virgin before and don't remember my carryon being weighed. Of course, I used to carry my heaviest stuff in my carryon since checked stuff always gets weighed on Transatlantic flights.

13 pounds? Hells bells, my purse would make up the majority of that!

[dlrp_bopazot]

i'm a frequent flyer on Ryanair and they never weight my carry on luggage .

i know that Ryanair will charge $10 or $15 for a checked bag .