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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barred Wobbler" data-source="post: 1712728" data-attributes="member: 69394">Just an update on a Thomson trip, (but not to Greece).I've just come back from Tenerife and I made sure that my hand baggage was 5kg by judicious use of my pockets and my wife's allowance. Our bags didn't get weighed.There was, however much weeping and wailing at the check-in at Tenerife yesterday. Several people were pulled because their hold baggage was overweight and they had to cough up at the check-in desk.When I was checking in I came to understand some of the anguish. Our bags were well under but I felt for those who'd been captured. The sign on the check-in showing the rate for overweight luggage and it looked like one of those shop notices we used to see in the days of high inflation, when a printed notice could often have the price modified by the application of Tippex and ball-point pen as price rises outstripped the rate of print orders.The same method had been applied to the notices to say that the price for overweight baggage was now 17, yes 17, euros per kilogramme.Fat people continue to fly without surcharge.</blockquote>