To me it is not the fees as so much as the idiots at the counter. Two weeks ago I dropped off my girlfriend at the airport who was going to Paris for the month to visit her daughter, who is in law school there, and she had the right to two bags of 23 kilos each.

1st bag came in at 20 kilos, the 2nd came in at 24 kilos. They wanted to charge her US150, for the extra kilo in the one bag. The sum total of both was 2 kilos less than the maximum allowed. Anyway, after a few minutes of going back and forth, we moved 1.5 kilos out of the "overweight" bag into the lighter bag. It was a pain, but there was no way I was going to give the airline another US150 for this stupidity.

OK< I understand that they have maximum. But one kilo, come on!!!!! And total weight within their rules. A little judegement on behalf of the person at the counter could have helped make the check in so much nicer.

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