Mortyman From Norway, joined Aug 2006, 3237 posts, RR: 2 Posted (5 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 1888 times:
Because of the harsh market in the airlineindustry amongst the cheap competitors, Sterling will from autumn on put a pricetag on bringing your luggage with you..........................
0-15 kg: 5 USD
15-20 kg: 30 USD
20-25 kg: 55 USD
And this is for one way only !
You also have to pay 8.50 USD for every kg you have in excess luggage.
Thats quite reasonable. Most people won't have more than that anyway, especially on the short intra-scandinavian and shorter intra-european flights. Their fares are good, so I don't think these luggage charges are over the top. However the gap between 0-15 and 15-20kg is quite large. This might be an indication that they want to try to limit people's baggage, for whatever reason.
Acelanzarote From Spain, joined Nov 2005, 786 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (5 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 1835 times:
does this include charter flights???
Just thinking that a family going on holiday for two weeks is going to end
up paying quiet a lot...
As a example holiday makers here mostly seem to travel with a case each
and I bet almost all are over 15kg....
Hope this is not going to become a trend....
from the Island with sun and great photo's.. Why not visit Lanzarote
Kevin777 From Denmark, joined Sep 2006, 1154 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (5 years 10 months 3 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 1569 times:
Well, when you're paying the price of a happy meal for your airline ticket I guess charging for luggage is fair enough..... However, Sterling claims it's because of weight reduction.. what about fat people then??!! Or generally people above average weight... I'm at 92 kilos, guess I should pay some penalty, too..
Stefan Vilner, Sterling' previous commercial manager who fled the company a couple of months ago, also claimed that it wasn't to make money from luggage charges, nor was it to save money on fuel for them - it was for THE ENVIRONMENT only... CO2 reduction... OH come off it!!! How stupid do you think people are...! I just read that Sterling also - no, I'm not joking - has removed two out of three inflight magazines (leaving just one per two rows) to save fuel..! Now, I'm not pro extra fuel consumption, and of course every little bit helps, but that's just silly.... doing it to save costs of printing the magazines, fair enough though...
I'm sure the old Maersk people at Sterling (probably down to the last few) are cursing the luggage charges....
Kevin777
"I was waiting for you at DFW, but you must have been in LUV" CPH-GOT-CPH-GOT-CPH-GOT-CPH...
IAHFLYER From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 311 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (5 years 10 months 3 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 1448 times:
Quoting Mortyman (Reply 8): We're serviceminded here in Norway, you see Smile
Thanky you, also is there much demand for norway to Houston traffic?
Little airports with the big jets are the best!! Floyd
Mortyman From Norway, joined Aug 2006, 3237 posts, RR: 2 Reply 11, posted (5 years 10 months 3 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 1440 times:
Don't know for sure. However there are many big oilcompanies here in Norway, including American based in Houston. However if it's enough to start traffic, I don't know.
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