I have been told that you are allowed an increase in your luggage allowance when you are emigrating.
Does anybody know if this is true, I am told that you can increase your personnal allowance from 20kg to 40kg. Is this correct?

Cheers

Hi,
We emmigrated to the Sunshine coat early June and flew with Air Malasia. We came with just suitcases and as it was me, my wife, and 3 kids we obviously had a few cases(9).

We were told the allowance was 20kg per person but after speaking to the Air Malasia staff at Manchester and telling them we were emigrating they said we would be allowed an extra 10kg each. When we got the luggage weighed we were still 45kg over!!! they agreed to let us have another 5kg each but we would have to pay excess for 20kg.
BE WARNED THOUGH THIS AMOUNTED TO SIX HUNDRED POUND +!!!!

So if you can get your luggage weighed before you get to the airport if you think you might go over.
If you do need to send over more,send it by parcel post that works out at about 150per 20kg.

Hope this helps Mick n Cheryl

Mick an Cheryl,

Thanks, I agree it`s a bit late when you arrive at the airport, £600.00 is a lot of money. I contact Emirates to see what they say.

Cheers

Bill and Sue

I am moving over to Perth next month.Only Singapore Airlines and Quantas will give migrants up to 40kg each on production of a permanent residency visa.