Delta check-in baggage restrictions -- any bad experiences?
 

On our well documented trip to Santander and environs, we have learned that Delta has a restriction on check in luggage -- 62 linear inches. Do they make a big deal out of this?

Hi J,

Depends on who the agent is at check in.

There are also weigh restrictions.

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62 linear inches is one BIG suitcase. I'd be more worried by their 50 pound weight limit, if I were taking a bag that large.

I'm assuming you're talking checked bags. A friend just returned yesterday on a Delta international flight. They did make a big deal out the weight on her bag (cost her $80). Her sister fared a little better. She begged the agent for an exemption because her bag was filled with books and teaching supplies for impoverished schools in Santo Domingo. Her fee was waived.

Most of my vacations involve skiing or flyfishing, so with the extra gear I need I'm always bumping up against luggage restrictions. I have a very large rolling duffel that measures exactly 62 inches (obviously designed with an eye toward the regulations). My experience has been that the airlines don't seem to pay a great deal of attention to the size - nobody has ever taken out a tape measure and actually measured it - but they won't allow a single pound over the 50-lb limit. Delta has been no different from any other airline in this.

I wish that people would realize that these oversized/ excess weight bags have to be picked up and transferred by someone on the ground.I don't think the traveling public realizes how many back and shoulder injuries occur from these bags for the airline employees.
Weight and balance is also a problem and on certain flights(particularly those to Africa,South America and India) the passengers take EVERYTHING but the kitchen sink.
Having had to pay overcharges even on my own airline-I do understand why they have to do it.

I agree with that principle. It's kind of like tolls on the autoroute: pay if you use it, don't pay if you don't.

With the cost of jet fuel sky high (pun intended) people are just going to have to either pay the toll or leave it at home.