Questions about airlines - Aer Lingus & Virgin Atlantic

[wayneg]

You also need to keep in mind the weight of your checked bags as they can differ from one airline to the next. 20kg on jet blue verses 23kg on aer lingus. So when we did our shopping in NYC we had to be very careful as we still had a flight to Boston and then orlando and I really did not want to be stung for excess charges. We have a digital luggage scale that we take with us every trip. We got stung on our honeymoon as we were a fair bit over weight so lesson learned there.

JetBlue isn't 20kg, always been able to take our transatlantic allowance with them:

http://www.jetblue.com/flying-on-jetblue/first-bag-free/

 

[Elise79]

JetBlue isn't 20kg, always been able to take our transatlantic allowance with them: http://www.jetblue.com/flying-on-jetblue/first-bag-free/

I can confirm this as flew with them yesterday although they weigh in lbs rather than kgs so I made sure we were slightly under to be sure

 

[starrysky]

I can confirm this as flew with them yesterday although they weigh in lbs rather than kgs so I made sure we were slightly under to be sure

Ah I was sure it was 20kg but still best to be careful as they charge a fortune if your over.

 

[Woodview]

To Sayhello & others


Just checked out the Cabin Luggage ( overhead Bin ) measurements


on the ACTUAL measure bin , for Aer Lingus, at Cork Airport


For Transatlantic & European destinations On

Aircraft type Airbus 330 ( Boston route ) & Airbus 319 / 320 / 321 ( EU )

MAX Weight is 10Kgs or 22 lbs

Measurements are 56 cm (H) x 40 cm (W) x 24cm (D)

Or 22 " x 16 " x 9 "


Click on EI ??? to see which aircraft it is.


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On Smaller Aircraft from Ireland to UK ( Regional Aircraft )ATR 72 / 42

Measurements are

Max Weight is 7 kgs & 43 cm x 33 cm x 20 cm

OR 17 " x 13 " x 8 "

..........................................................

These are STRICTLY enforced & maybe placed in Hold compartment

instead as EXTRA charged Luggage .

..............................

You are allowed a Laptop inside a carry case as Hand luggage

Hope this helps

 

[sayhello]

Yes we looked at various options and while jet blue may have been a bit more than say Delta. The baggage charges tipped them way over the cost of the jet blue flights.

You also need to keep in mind the weight of your checked bags as they can differ from one airline to the next. 20kg on jet blue verses 23kg on aer lingus. So when we did our shopping in NYC we had to be very careful as we still had a flight to Boston and then orlando and I really did not want to be stung for excess charges. We have a digital luggage scale that we take with us every trip. We got stung on our honeymoon as we were a fair bit over weight so lesson learned there.

I'm very conscious of it too, because I was VERY CLOSE to over one time. I carry a digital scale, too. Never want to worry about that again!

Sayhello

 

[sayhello]

Woodview, thanks for the measurements. My "international carry-on" is definitely too big for the overhead. But I was assured by a supervisor at Aer Lingus that the carryon would be gate checked if it was too big, at no extra charge (which is exactly what the small regional flights in the USA do). I'm really used to that.

Sayhello

 

[starrysky]

I'm very conscious of it too, because I was VERY CLOSE to over one time. I carry a digital scale, too. Never want to worry about that again! Sayhello

Yes they really are great we always aim to be just under and sorry about the wrong weight limit info. Think I must have been thinking we needed to be around the 20kgs so we had room to get stuff in NYC and Boston and I knew we would be throwing stuff out in Orlando like toiletries.

 

[disneyholic family]

just getting on the band wagon against booking on separate tickets.
It should be avoided if at all possible.
Though i have done it many times and you may have to if the numbers don't work out.

When i have to book on separate tickets, the cost of the checked baggage on the domestic leg bothers me less than the consequences of missing the connecting flight. You really are up that creek we all know without a paddle in that situation.
And having missed many connecting flights over the years, i know it's a real possibility.
Nevertheless, if i have to book on separate tickets, i do.
DD and her husband just had to in november since the transatlantic portion of the trip was on frequent flyer points.
So JFK to MCO was on a separate ticket.
When i booked their tickets, I left them a lot of time between the flights in hopes they would make it in time (they did).

i had to book us on separate tickets last year as well, when we had to fly out of detroit on our return.
Our transatlantic airline doesn't have relations with delta (the airline that owns detroit) so we had to book that leg of the trip on a separate ticket.
Again making me nervous that we wouldn't get to the next flight in time.
And,in fact we didn't make it to our JFK flight that time. Even though we had 12 hours between flights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Due to a massive weather related ground stop across the eastern US, we couldn't get out of detroit for a very very very long time.
For the first few hours of sitting in the airport in detroit, i was pretty calm about it, after all i had given us that big cushion of time between the two flights in JFK.
But as the delay continued i talked to delta, who were kind of useless.
So we called our transatlantic airline and they said no worries.
They put us onto the next flight out (fortunately they have multiple 747s that leave out of new york each day).
We were damn lucky that we called when we did, as later in the day, they didn't have seats on that next flight to give out.
But it was up to us to take care of it (and part of the reason the airline was so good to us was two of the 4 of us were in business class - always treated much better than those in cattle class).
However, had the two flights been on the same ticket, the airline would have automatically taken care of us and we wouldn't have had to worry about it (as happened a year prior to that when our inbound flight was late into JFK and we missed our orlando flight, which happened to have been the last flight out of JFK to orlando that day - the airline put us and one other couple onto a bus and raced us over to la guardia to get us onto the last flight out to orlando woo hoo - and it was all taken care of. After we walked out of customs to the connecting desk, there was an airline official standing there waiting for the four of us to run us over to the bus that was waiting to race over to la guardia. Definitely better to fly on one ticket )

 

[sayhello]

just getting on the band wagon against booking on separate tickets.
It should be avoided if at all possible.
Though i have done it many times and you may have to if the numbers don't work out.

When i have to book on separate tickets, the cost of the checked baggage on the domestic leg bothers me less than the consequences of missing the connecting flight. You really are up that creek we all know without a paddle in that situation.
And having missed many connecting flights over the years, i know it's a real possibility.
Nevertheless, if i have to book on separate tickets, i do.
DD and her husband just had to in november since the transatlantic portion of the trip was on frequent flyer points.
So JFK to MCO was on a separate ticket.
When i booked their tickets, I left them a lot of time between the flights in hopes they would make it in time (they did).

i had to book us on separate tickets last year as well, when we had to fly out of detroit on our return.
Our transatlantic airline doesn't have relations with delta (the airline that owns detroit) so we had to book that leg of the trip on a separate ticket.
Again making me nervous that we wouldn't get to the next flight in time.
And,in fact we didn't make it to our JFK flight that time. Even though we had 12 hours between flights!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Due to a massive weather related ground stop across the eastern US, we couldn't get out of detroit for a very very very long time.
For the first few hours of sitting in the airport in detroit, i was pretty calm about it, after all i had given us that big cushion of time between the two flights in JFK.
But as the delay continued i talked to delta, who were kind of useless.
So we called our transatlantic airline and they said no worries.
They put us onto the next flight out (fortunately they have multiple 747s that leave out of new york each day).
We were damn lucky that we called when we did, as later in the day, they didn't have seats on that next flight to give out.
But it was up to us to take care of it (and part of the reason the airline was so good to us was two of the 4 of us were in business class - always treated much better than those in cattle class).
However, had the two flights been on the same ticket, the airline would have automatically taken care of us and we wouldn't have had to worry about it (as happened a year prior to that when our inbound flight was late into JFK and we missed our orlando flight, which happened to have been the last flight out of JFK to orlando that day - the airline put us and one other couple onto a bus and raced us over to la guardia to get us onto the last flight out to orlando woo hoo - and it was all taken care of. After we walked out of customs to the connecting desk, there was an airline official standing there waiting for the four of us to run us over to the bus that was waiting to race over to la guardia. Definitely better to fly on one ticket )

I totally agree with everything you say, which is why I'm really, REALLY hesitant to buy separate tickets. The luggage thing is just an extra cost that can make a difference when trying to book "cheaper" flights. Stuff like that can eat up the difference, which would make it even less worth it!

Sayhello

 

[disneyholic family]

I totally agree with everything you say, which is why I'm really, REALLY hesitant to buy separate tickets. The luggage thing is just an extra cost that can make a difference when trying to book "cheaper" flights. Stuff like that can eat up the difference, which would make it even less worth it!

Sayhello

yes those hidden costs do add up.
And now delta has decided to change things for 2015 - they're going to charge you extra to pick a seat in advance. Lovely.

as for the baggage charges, i flew first class two years ago - from Detroit to Orlando when i saw that the difference between the two classes was just slightly over the baggage charge in economy. I only had to pay an extra $25 to fly first class once i took the baggage charge into account. No brainer as far as i was concerned!!