Likewise, my five day "Business Trip" (no really Tax Office, really) to Portugal will be done on a 5kg small day-hiking backpack, more than enough room in one of those for everything you could possibly need on a five day trip.



If you're a male.

There should be an aggregated personal weight + baggage rate per person. This would then allow skinny buggers to trade off their spare capacity to the "San & Tray"s of this world and thereby reduce their personal travel costs

You fattist tw@

As long as it isn't during takeoff a modern jet can happily fly -1 engine.

I'd love to be behind Eric Pickles at check-in. He'd need a planeload of Biafrans to compensate for his allowance

It might cost him more if the weigh-in was as you got off, rather than on.