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My experience has been mixed. In SYD, FA demanded my partner and I weigh our rolling bags, then took quite a long time to fill out the cards, key things in on the computer, have us sign the cards, and so forth. Bags came out in the middle of the checked bags. In ADL, filling out and signing...

If bin space is the concern, wouldn't enforcing the size limit make far more sense than a weight limit?

What possible logic can there be for allowing 10kg in two adjacent bags but not in one bag?

Was this international or domestic? I wonder what they'd have done if someone said "I'm not flying, just popping into the lounge."

I'd say true but beside the point. Airlines use standardized average per-passenger weights, often establishing by aviation authorities, as an estimate. However, it's seems quite obvious from looking around that any actual passenger might deviate from the average by a factor of three. One...

Why? Enforcing a size limit makes sense, as oversize bags take up space that others could use. The weight limit has nothing to do with how many bags fit in a bin or under seat, and the plane is carrying the weight either way. Now, if the airline wanted to weigh passengers and their bags...

I think this observation is the entire point of this thread, no? That QF sometimes enforces the silly 7kg per-bag weight limit for carry-ons.

In the U.S. and Europe, gate agents are almost always dedicated ground staff. In Australia, at least with QF and VA, there is one supervisory gate agent who is ground staff, the rest of the gate agents are the cabin crew for the flight. In my experience, it's luck of the draw as to if the FA...

I often travel with an umbrella in one of my backpack's two exterior side water-bottle holders. In my experience, almost every single domestic security checkpoint (e.g., CBR, SYD, ADL) has insisted that I remove the umbrella from its holder, where it was held securely but quite separately from...

I think you plug it into the at-seat USB power, so no need for a battery.

I know people who travel with them. They do help, but not nearly as much as individual air nozzles do. Fans can only blow around the already hot cabin air, which can provide a small amount of evaporative cooling. The air nozzles blow air that's colder than the cabin air, so they help a lot...

People say that being hot makes people sleepy, but in my experience just the opposite. Being hot makes me agitated and sleepless.

EY and JL are the worst, in my experience, along with the AA A321T trans-con. On EY, JL, CX, and even QR it often gets too hot to sleep. On some planes there are individual air vents and if I open them full, it cools my area down enough. Otherwise I will politely ask a few times for the...

How was it changed? Was it unticketed and the flights were still available for rebooking?

Cute.

If it's an anagram, then what's the issue? Presumably your actual PNR does not spell anything? It's only alarming if you go to a good bit of work to rearrange the letters?

There is a VA-specific thread: New Baggage crackdown starts this week at VA

That would at least be sensible. It is easy to see a concern over size. Weight makes no sense.

Next QF flights are in February. Not looking forward to needing to check rolling bags. Hope they let me take on my laptop backpack, as it's super heavy but can squeeze under the seat in front.

Might be route-specific. I've flown JNB-SYD a lot, which is ~11 hours in the air. It might seem like a long enough flight, but subtracting five hours for supper service to end and then with brekkies served two hours or more before landing, there's not even five hours for sleeping. It might...