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Does anyone know if JFK for flights on Swiss air is makpid about being overweight?
Swiss Air went out of business 10 years ago.
They are not allowed to discriminate based on weight. They might try to encourage you to purchase a low fat, low calorie meal, but they can not be makpid if you choose the high in saturated fat, 17g of fat per serving meal.
Nowadays EVERY airline is makpid on your luggage weight.
Be smart. Weigh your luggage at home so you know where you’re holding and wont get any expensive surprises at the airport.
Usually they are NOT makpid on carry-on bags, so you should try to put smaller but heavy items (like shoes or boots or books) in your carry-on.
5 years ago I travelled with El Al and I had 6 kg over – I had 26 kg where 20 is allowed (flights inside Europe and from Europe to Israel allow only 20 kg, unlike flights to the US which are usually double that).
I was so scared I would get a huge ‘fine’ for this (it could have been +1000 NIS easily)… Then I got to check-in, got boarding pass, handed over luggage, and … “have a nice flight”?! I just walked off when I thought, “huh?! wasn’t I supposed to pay for that?!” – so I actually walked back and asked about it. I was told it was ok!
+1 for El Al.
dash- well if they went out of business their back now i took them a few years ago…highly recommended
@far east – no, that’s a new company, called Swiss.
There used to be Swissair. Swissair is gone.
Then someone bought the remains of the bankrupt company and re-launched it under the name Swiss.
So dash was right. (Though I think it was less than 10 years ago, maybe 7 years ago – look it up on Wikipedia if you want.)
This is what the swissair dot com website says:
Swissair
SWISS ab 2002
Was in JFK tonite sending someone off to ey their luggage was overweight by some ten pounds and the el al woman said “I’m letting you go this time” that was nice I thought.
TCG- thanx for the info. im assuming ft girl was talking about swiss then and not swiss air lol
Airports don’t have baggage policies. Airlines do. The only thing the airport management worries about is smuggling a weapon, and teh federal government has largely taken away any discretion in that area.
FYI – JFK does not have a baggage policy. The individual airlines have baggage policies.
One thing I’ve got to say about CR posters; even if they are sometimes rude, ill-informed and cannot spell English correctly; at least they have a GREAT sense of humor!
@dash – thus, swissair.com confirms my story, right? I assume you read German, or you translated it on Google Translate?
It says that Swissair ceased to exist in 2002 and Swiss replaced it but has no relation with it.
I don’t read German but I thought that you did. The page is availible im multiple languages and I just copied the German one. For everyone else here’s the english version:
Swissair
SWISS from 2002 onwards
“Swiss International Air Lines has no connection to the former company, Swissair”.
Interesting statement.
Isn’t that a bit like saying ‘I am not related to my former Mother’?
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