Duty free

[ladybird49]

Came back from my hol in turkey yesterday ( had a great time BTW
MY Q IS
Why do people get charged excess when as soon as you go through you can buy bottles of spirits / wine cigarettes , perfume and nothing is charged / said about the extra weight ?

[237SJ]

I presume when you say excess you mean excess baggage?

[ladybird49]

Yes ....sorry : )

[dothawkes31]

I think they allow for that

[dothawkes31]

They'll let you on with excess if you pay so they are allowing for excess

[237SJ]

One of the quirks of travel. Cabin baggage goes by the size of the bags, not the weight and when a hold allowance is 20+ kilos, a litre of booze or so for duty free (which you can only buy so much of) won`t make a huge difference. The passenger could be 20 K overweight so it`s all much of a muchness. The overhead lockers do have a combined weight for all the bags in there so where some are heavier, some are lighter so it all adds up to the same. It`s the size of the airside shopping bags that are the problem in which case people will be told they have to go into the hold