Excess baggage - Qatar Airways

Check to see if you send the luggage by air cargo if its cheaper.

A bit more expensive than cargo but much cheaper than excess luggage. Easier to handle. Just walk in to the cargo section with your luggage, show them your ticket and they will take care of everything. You should not need a shipping agent to do this.
Also apply for Privilage Club membership to start accuulation points for your travels and later you will get a bonus of 10 extra free Kgs Luggage.

Hey, I guess you better dont keep hopes coz last time I was coming to Doha, they said its strictly not allowed to let go excess baggage or they loose their jobs. So only if you are a real charmer and can convince them then go ahead with or forget it. I contacted a local cargo agent who couriered my cargo at a rate which is 1/4 of what they charge at airport.

BETTER BE SAFE THAN SORRY
HAVE A SAFE TRIP

Susanne, do you have company sponsorship? if so ask if they will pay, mine paid for an extra 10 kg, on top of my ticket and in excess to my air-freight and sea freight.

good one markie will be sure to try this one out next time ........

life's too short so make the most of it, you only live but once.......

Your advice is wasted because now they have a special thingy which actually measures the size of the hand baggage.

This may or may not go on the same flight as you (maybe not even by the same airline) but is certainly cheaper. However, I am not sure if you need a residence permit in Qatar to collect it as you do with freight. We shipped items from Abu Dhabi to Qatar by road and we had to address it to our son-in-law in Qatar who had a residence permit.

My husband's company pays for flights all over the world for him when he travels for business and he gets ever single mile. The ticket is in your name, you will get the miles.

....at their webpage - and keep your fingers crossed that a big smile helps.... ;-)

Mmm! Exactly on the miles issue. Even though your company paid the flight, you most certainly can have the miles. The only difference is that your mileage club isn't already on the ticket. So you will have to either have your number at check-in, or just your card. When you get to the counter, have a neat package with your ticket/receipt, passport, permanent visa printoff, and your mileage card. They know what to do from there.

Qatar Airways. If you're moving to Doha, I strongly, strongly suggest you go onto Qatar Airways and register for their air miles program. You will get much better benefits through this than with crediting the miles to another Star Alliance card (Lufthansa/United, etc.) For instance, you only need 6,000 miles to take a free round-trip in the gulf on economy. So your trip from Germany will almost put you at enough miles to go to Dubai for free.

You wouldn't need your physical card at the counter next week, just your number. So after you register you get your card number right away. Most will provide you with a temporary card you can print and show. This will work fine for you. In fact, you could even send the membership stuff to your new Doha address.

I just brought my family here in Qatar. We were 35 kilos over our baggage weight limit at check in. (Our limit was 70 kilos and our checked in baggage weighed 105 kilos!)
I asked the check in counter personnel nicely to allow us the excess baggage since most of them were for our boy.
And to my surprise, before boarding, they even suggested to check in our carry in luggage since they saw me carrying my laptop, two cameras, one stuffed toy, one baby backpack full of toy cars and one carry in luggage while my wife had one baby bag, one bag containing all her jewelries, her shoulder bag and one carry in luggage.
We did not pay a single cent for all the excess baggage. So try to ask nicely.

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