Wizz Air Baggage Allowance

santechnic

Can anyone tell me if they have flown Wizz Air to Lithuania yet or Wizz Air in general.Their baggage allowance section seems confusing.Can you or can you not check in a single piece of baggage up to 32kg without being charged for being overweight?

number10a

You can. It really does sound too good to be true, but the weight limit is in fact 32kg!! It's brilliant! Love Wizz Air.

Edit: Remember though that if you show up with two bags you'll end up paying extra. Better to have one bag of 32kg rather than 16kg+16kg. They charge for every bag you check in and regardless of how many you pay for, the limit is still 32kg.

santechnic

Thanks No.10. Much obliged. Its amazing they actually allow such "heavy baggage" if they class themselves a lost cost carrier. I'm flying to Lithuania on the 17th Sept and have indeed only one bag booked. 32kg is more than enough for my two week trip to Belarus. I was amazed to hear during the week that if you do book more than one bag your allowance is still only 20kg in he case of Aer Lingus and 15kg for Ryanair. Certainly a rip off. I mean my jocks nearly weigh 15kg alone. Lets hope that its not a costly 12kg and Wizz Air fly me to some backward airport in Poland because they couldn't fill a flight. This happened to friends of mine that were flying Air Baltic.They arrived in Vilnius to get the Dublin flight and were flown to Riga because they hadn't filled enough seats. Anyway thanks again........

number10a

I wouldn't worry about something like that happening. Anytime I've ever been going through security in Cork at the same time as the Vilnius flight, all I'm able to hear around me is Lithuanian being spoken! So should be a fairly full flight. Air Baltic is based out of Riga, so that is probably why that happened - fairly shìt though! Even though Wizz Air are a Hungarian airline, the plane you'll be on, the pilots and the cabin crew will all be based out of Vilnius so they want to get there as much as you do.

And Wizz Air are a dream to fly with compared to other low-cost carriers. You can actually relax on the flight and not be subject to about ten different sales pitches like on your typical Ryanair flight.

And with the baggage allowance thing, they really do show us how we're getting ripped off by other carriers. One passenger can easily weigh 12kg more than average, so what's the problem with a bag doing the same thing?! I just wish they flew to more places out of Cork.

What part of Belarus are you heading for by the way?

santechnic

A school roughly 100km south of Minsk and just north or Slutsk/Soligorsk. Been there a few times (14 in all) so its home from home now.... Been there yerself?

number10a

No never been over there, but it's something I'm definitely interested in doing at some stage. Did you just contact a school directly, or was it organised through an agency/charity?

santechnic

number10a wrote: »

No never been over there, but it's something I'm definitely interested in doing at some stage. Did you just contact a school directly, or was it organised through an agency/charity?

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