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Title: Hand luggage
Post by: Siam on July 25, 2012, 01:13:01 AM

having a lovely time here at San Stefanos but sadly due to leave this Sat. Would like to take home some nice gifts from Olive Woods which are quite heavy. Do they weigh or are they strict  with hand luggage at Kerkyra airport?

Title: Re: Hand luggage
Post by: tonyco1 on July 25, 2012, 01:30:50 AM

Which Airline??
Easy Jet - no
Thomas Cook - yes
Thomsons - they didn't check the hand luggage weight with us earlier in the year - or last August in Corfu.

Title: Re: Hand luggage
Post by: Siam on July 25, 2012, 11:28:54 PM

We're flying back with Thomas Cook.Do they weigh everyone's hand luggage?

Title: Re: Hand luggage
Post by: strogs on July 26, 2012, 12:36:17 AM

We flew with Thomas Cook last September, can't remember if they weighed the hand luggage but very strict of suitcase weight.  We were 1.5kgs over and they charged us 21 euros.  Know what you mean about the olive wood though.  We brought a lovely vase back with us.
Good luck

Title: Re: Hand luggage
Post by: Jimbo on July 26, 2012, 12:38:08 AM

Check-in at Kerkyra is normally handled by the airport, not the airline. Never seen them weigh hand baggage.

Title: Re: Hand luggage
Post by: Rover on July 26, 2012, 01:30:01 AM

They may not weigh it, but they can. It will go through security scans. Just be sure that you carry nothing which is banned, liquids, knives etc, and be prepared to pay/ put in hold baggage/ discard. Annoyingly, as has been discussed in other parts of this forum, you can 'load up'with stuff when you have cleared check in and go to 'duty free'
Enjoy your flight.

Title: Re: Hand luggage
Post by: paularider7 on July 26, 2012, 11:02:39 AM

Hi, we flew with Thomas Cook last year to Turkey and they DID weigh our hand luggage both ways, but they put all four of our bags on the scales together. :) Hope this helps, regards Paula.

Title: Re: Hand luggage
Post by: Siam on July 28, 2012, 07:33:56 PM

Quote from: Jimbo on July 26, 2012, 12:38:08 AM

Check-in at Kerkyra is normally handled by the airport, not the airline. Never seen them weigh hand baggage.

Home at 6.35am UK time today after 2hr 3min delay. As you said, check in handled by airport not airline and our hand luggage was not weighed. A lot of hand luggage on our flight looked well over the 5kg limit with a good number of 'wheelies' aboard. Had no problem, but don't like to push my luck with the weight limit.

Title: Re: Hand luggage
Post by: tonyco1 on July 30, 2012, 01:20:58 AM

Seems like they don't bother in Corfu, but they definitely do in most Turkish Airports, and some other destinations.

I am pretty sure that the charge we had to pay in Turkey, was "Trousered" by the staff there!!
That was with Thomas Cook!