Delta and KLM Flight Logistics, Luggage Weight Scandals
A traveler describes a flight from Austin to Amsterdam via Atlanta, noting the discrepancies in baggage allowances between Delta and KLM code-share flights. An anecdote details a confrontation at the airport counter over a suitcase weighing 56 pounds against a 50-pound limit, resulting in a manual transfer of items between bags. A similar experience on Lufthansa is recounted where removing a two-pound laptop from a bag satisfied a strict weight limit.
amsterdam· klm· delta airlines· austin· luggage fees· weight limits
00:00 what i thought was a snide style. above the massage parlor with the purple lights in Amsterdam. Gitmo Nation, Lowlands In The Morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where i am three stories above the driveway I'm John C. DuBois It works, kind of. I think... Seems to! Oh man it's challenging Here we are in the lowlands Local time here 6pm I am jet lagged beyond belief Why?
00:47 Well, we arrived yesterday morning at 8 a.m. You're supposed to sleep going east! Yeah... We slept for I don't know four hours on the plane maybe? More than enough No it really wasn't enough Also you booked KLM That was Friday this is Sunday No but it was-we left Friday and we arrived Saturday morning Right, right. So you know it's a day to recover and we also in your book KLM or at least you think your booking KLM but then actually it turns out that you're flying Delta Oh Delta! Who really don't give a crap about you Enough said I gotta say And so there is so much wrong They are supposed have these friendly skies I guess they all part of the same company That was United The friendly skies of United Yeah thats what it was
01:40 So you're allowed... Yeah, no Delta is the nasty skies. Well here's what funny so you're allowed to when you fly from Austin to Amsterdam through Atlanta with Delta which is code shares with KLM whatever You are allowed to take two bags per person When you fly back from Amsterdam to Austin your only allow to take one bag per person What? Why? No one can tell me! No one has an explanation why and not that it matters because we uh... we both have one bag but you know i made this big stink with mickey about the simply it's going to be exactly fifty pounds in no way anybody where your boss weighing just forty four pounds into their waited at austin airport is where they wait a really yeah and as like well you know if you can go over by two pounds and you might my suitcase which was funny because i'd i thought i waited exactly fifty pounds
02:37 My suitcase was like 56 and said, well no you... Oh that there are scales or I'm telling this is a scandal. Yes! So we actually had to take four pounds out of my suitcase and put it into her suitcase. I swear to God while were standing there at the counter It's insane One time i was doing this on Lufthansa Yeah And uh I put the bag down they weigh it its like I think it was like a 44 pound limit or something like that yeah and he goes ehh You're over two pounds It's 46 pounds and I said, well hold on a second. I opened the bag and took the laptop out which was a 2 pound laptop And held the laptop under my arm and put the bag back on He said okay you're good to go. I pulled the bag off Put the laptop back in the bag Yeah Perfect it's so stupid
