Thread: American Airlines Travel Advisory on Baggage

Since there's confusion about this all the time, here is what was posted on the Post:

To: St. George’s University

From: American Airlines/American Eagle

Subject: TRAVEL ADVISORY – DECEMBER 2009

Date: November 20, 2009


American Airlines/American Eagle wishes to remind all customers of the following baggage allowance policies for flights operating into and out of Grenada:


AMERICAN EAGLE

·1 personal item (such as a purse or laptop bag) and 1 carry-on item
-Maximum weight of carry-on is 40 LBS
-Carry-on item CANNOT exceed 45 dimensional inches (length + width + height)

·2 checked bags


-TOTAL combined weight may NOT EXCEED 70 LBS for the 2 checked pieces
-Each bag may NOT weigh more than 50 LBS

·NOT ALLOWED – Excess, Oversize, Overweight Bags, and Boxes

·Pets
-2 cabin pets (first come first serve)
-1 large or 2 medium checked pets (first come first serve)



AMERICAN AIRLINES

·1 personal item (such as a purse or laptop bag) and 1 carry-on item
-Maximum weight of carry-on is 40 LBS
-Carry-on item cannot exceed 45 dimensional inches (length + width + height)

·2 checked bags.
-For free allowance, each bag may NOT weigh more than 50 LBS

·Overweight bags
-51 – 70 LBS $50.00 US or $135.00 EC
-71 – 100 LBS $100.00 US or $270.00 EC
-Baggage over 100 LBS would not be accepted.

·Oversize bags
-Baggage 63 – 115 inches, $100.00 US or $270.00 EC
-Baggage over 115 inches is not allowed

·Pets
-Cabin pets - 3 economy and 2 business class (first come first serve)
-Checked pets accepted based on space available (first come first serve)


Sincerely,



Gillian Thompson
GENERAL MANAGER

GT/ro

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if it is true, then it sux.

AA website says something different though

American Airlines Mexico, Latin America & Caribbean Checked Bag Limitations / AA.com

I hope it was a typo and they meant 70 lb max for each checked-in bags.

Originally Posted by ravigoteti

if it is true, then it sux.

AA website says something different though

American Airlines Mexico, Latin America & Caribbean Checked Bag Limitations / AA.com

I hope it was a typo and they meant 70 lb max for each checked-in bags.

I think you might be confusing the American EAGLE restrictions with the American AIRLINES restrictions.

may be.

the website does say " For that reason, American Airlines and American Eagle will implement limitations on checked baggage and boxes from November 21, 2009 - January 10, 2010.

For the destinations identified below, boxes† and excess, overweight (more than 70lbs.), or oversized pieces will not be accepted for transportation. Bags weighing 51-70 lbs. will be accepted with the collection of the applicable charge."

American Airlines Mexico, Latin America & Caribbean Checked Bag Limitations / AA.com

I'm flying by AA from Chicago to Miami in January and then A. Eagle from Miami to GND. Does that mean I can't take more than 70 lb of checked-in baggage with me? That doesn't make any sense.

Eagle has always had tighter restrictions since it's a smaller plane. Their limit for the past 2 years that we have been flying down here has been 70 lbs for the combined total of 2 check-in bags (with neither over 50 lbs), though you can bring 100 lbs combined total for 2 check-in bags through the bigger AA planes but since you have to switch planes to Eagle, then you'll have to shed some 30 lbs of weight in Miami or just pack 70 lbs.

I must post here since I personally went through this mess.... DON'T go by AA website.... that's all a lie... I packed 100 lbs 2 bags together thinking world is a happy place but at the airport the check-in lady said either make it 70 lbs or make it 70 lbs. Also, that they will not take excess bagagge, even if u wanna pay n take it. Luckily it happened going from Grenada so I took my time opening all of my luggage at the airport and throwing out my precious biochem and other notes in the dumpster... and when I looked around, it was a chaos coz about 90% ppl were doing the same thing. So yes, 70 lbs MAX for 2 bags, and no more than 50 lbs per bag coz they won't take 1 70lb bags (God knows why).... and don't try argue with them coz those are some angry ppl at the airport... if they say 70, that means 70... not 70.5 coz it happened and I just felt like putting that lady in my suitcase and never open it at that point. But I think the carry-on 40lbs limits compensates a bit for this... better than LIAT (15 lbs MAX including your laptop)....

thanks stoichiometry and kongakut for clarifying that. I'll make sure I've only got 70 lbs then.....darn!

Originally Posted by Stoichiometry

I must post here since I personally went through this mess.... DON'T go by AA website.... that's all a lie... I packed 100 lbs 2 bags together thinking world is a happy place but at the airport the check-in lady said either make it 70 lbs or make it 70 lbs. Also, that they will not take excess bagagge, even if u wanna pay n take it. Luckily it happened going from Grenada so I took my time opening all of my luggage at the airport and throwing out my precious biochem and other notes in the dumpster... and when I looked around, it was a chaos coz about 90% ppl were doing the same thing. So yes, 70 lbs MAX for 2 bags, and no more than 50 lbs per bag coz they won't take 1 70lb bags (God knows why).... and don't try argue with them coz those are some angry ppl at the airport... if they say 70, that means 70... not 70.5 coz it happened and I just felt like putting that lady in my suitcase and never open it at that point. But I think the carry-on 40lbs limits compensates a bit for this... better than LIAT (15 lbs MAX including your laptop)....

The reason why its 70 max is because the plane would be overweight if every person brought in 100lbs. Unless you want to 'land' nose first off the coast of grenada, its a good thing its 70lbs. And suppose they did allow 100lbs, many people would not receive their bags because the pilot adds the weight before takeoff and tells them to unload x number of bags.

Also 50 is the max for a bag because of liability issues with employees breaking their backs. If you talk to them in a calm non-threatening way, they wouldn't care about 0.5 lbs extra.

Originally Posted by laclipps

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Also 50 is the max for a bag because of liability issues with employees breaking their backs.

No, 50 is the max because the baggage handler unions want to do as little as possible. The standard was 70 lbs for international flights not too long ago (I think before 2001 actually), and you even today can pay an extra fee to take 70 lbs on most airlines (including LIAT, by the way). I think flights to Brazil still let you take two 70 lb bags.

If it were because of liability issues, then the absolute maximum would be 50 - probably the free allowance would be reduced to 30 lbs, and extra fees would kick in at 30.1.

I love how if you go to an airport scale, you'll see that in most cases it doesn't tare at 0.

If you talk to them in a calm non-threatening way, they wouldn't care about 0.5 lbs extra.

That really depends on the ticket agent, but in general you get further with politeness than aggression.

Originally Posted by digitalising

No, 50 is the max because the baggage handler unions want to do as little as possible. The standard was 70 lbs for international flights not too long ago (I think before 2001 actually), and you even today can pay an extra fee to take 70 lbs on most airlines (including LIAT, by the way). I think flights to Brazil still let you take two 70 lb bags.

Having spent a summer working in a warehouse where all I did was load and unload furniture, I can see why it was dropped to 50lbs. Lifting this amount of weight ALL DAY LONG really wears out your back and neck. Although I do think it is kind of funny that the airline workers end up lifting the heavier weight anyways while the airline companies collect the extra-weight fees.