For those of you who will be traveling on United Airlines, there is a new free baggage rule coming into effect for tickets purchased after September 7th. You can find the announcement here. Basically, each Economy class passenger is allowed two piece of free check-in luggage with each one not exceeding 50 pounds. Before it the weight limit was 70 pounds each.
You may think 20 pounds per luggage doesn’t make that big a difference, it actually does. My hard case is 15 lbs when empty, so going by the 50 pounds rule, I can only put in 35 pounds of stuff, which isn’t that much compare to the 55 pounds I could put in according to the old rule.
We got our tickets before September 7, so our trip will not be affected.
Keep the new rule in mind when you are traveling on United Airlines.