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telescope said:
Those who are planning to have international solo/budget backpacking trips, there is good offer going on with Air Asia, Cebu pacific, vietjet air etc.

The offer is mostly given by AirAsia which is valid until 15th June.

Some of the fares are, bhubaneswar to Kuala Lumpur ₹4000. Visakhapatnam to Bangkok and KUL at ₹4000.

From KUL, some of the destinations in peninsular Malaysia is being offered at ₹500

The best time to book is now.
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Thanks for the info mate!

Booked 5 tickets to Bangkok @ around 40k ONWARD and RETURN included.

Used Emerald ICICI.
 
aayusharyan said:
Oh they will my friend they will. One time I had to travel through VietJet, they checked to the dot 7 Kgs, I had to wear 2-3 jackets to reduce the cabin weight. Put my power banks and all electronics in pocket and even a few chocolates to reduce the weight.
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Are you sure?

Generally they don't check the cabin baggage, right?

I will get the boarding pass through online web check-in, pass through security checks, then through gates. I don't want to visit their counter, since I don't have any baggage to drop.

I'll not go to the Thai Counter to check weight. Isn't that how it works?
 
ZappyRed said:
Are you sure?
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Bro, it happened with me, ofcourse I am sure.

ZappyRed said:
Generally they don't check the cabin baggage, right?
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Generally, but this is a low cost carrier, their business depends on this. Sometimes you might get lucky if the check in agent doesn't ask, but they do. When you travel Full service, then they don't care much.

ZappyRed said:
I will get the boarding pass through online web check-in, pass through security checks, then through gates.
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Then at the gates also they will check. The check in lady said that I need to wear my clothes till I am on the flight because they can check at the gates as well. which they were for some pax, I guess those were the ones who checked in online.
 
aayusharyan said:
Oh they will my friend they will. One time I had to travel through VietJet, they checked to the dot 7 Kgs, I had to wear 2-3 jackets to reduce the cabin weight. Put my power banks and all electronics in pocket and even a few chocolates to reduce the weight.
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Yes I heard that vietjet is very strict.
 
sahilgulati5 said:
Google Flights Rocks!!! Best way to check cheap flights. Have been using it from past 1+yrs before booking any flights
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Yep it does... There is one more website I am forgetting (maybe Skyscanner). The advantage of that is it let's you book separate tix with layover change which sometimes is even more cheaper. (Specially when visiting from APAC to Europe, I have found that helpful)
 
ZappyRed said:
Yes. Only 7kg allowed which they'll not check I guess.
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They will certinly check at gate. Here is my experience with Scoot and airasia. Context - I was flying with a laptop bag and cabin bag in all the following incidents:

1. MAA - SIN (Scoot): Arrived at the airport early. Scoot checkin counter wasn't open then. Scoot has 10 kg allowance. I went to an empty indigo counter and asked the lady if I can check the weight of my bag. She nodded affirmative. I found my bag was overweight by 2 kgs. I started wearing few more layers and kept powerbank, charger etc in my jacket. At the Scoot counter they asked me to put my laptop bag also along with cabin bag on scale. It was 11 kg in total. She was looking at my bag for a while (thinking what to do). I said, there is waterbottle which I can take out if necessary. The she said "no problem".

When I was waiting near gate to board, someone from scoot was approacing everyone and requesting to give the bag as checkin as flight was full. I happily gave it.

2. SIN - DPS (Scoot): Nobody was checking any weight here.

3. CGK - KUL (AirAsia): Cabin baggage limit 7kg. I met a fellow Indian traveller at the checkin queue. We both were worried about excess weight. We deviced a plan. He will wait with my cabin bag a little faraway from the counter while I checkin, and when I am finished, i'll wait for him with his checkin bag, so that at the counter we both will say that we have only laptop bag.

While going towards security, suddenly, everyone was asked to stand in queue and there were 2 Airasia girls with weighing scale weighing cabin baggage (not laptop bag). I was frightened. The weight came to about 10.5kg approx, but they said nothing.

4. KUL - COK (AirAsia): Cabin baggage limit 7 kg. Due to my earlier experience at CGK, I was a bit cautious this time, and also worried that my bag is overweight. Taken the boarding pass from self-checkin kiosk to avoid baggage weighing. When I proceeded towards security, Airasia guys were checking everyone for overweight luggage. I observed that they were weighing only cabin bag and not laptop bag. I quickly backed out and started putting all heavy things from cabin bag to my backpack. i knew my total weight of 2 bags were around 14kgs. I stuffed as many things possible into my backpack. my laptop bag became a lot heavier than cabin bag.

When they weighted my cabin bag at KUL, it was a little over 5kg. Although my laptop bag weight was almost double, they must have thought, how heavy it can be when cabin is 2kg less. And I went to immigration happily.
 
telescope said:
They will certinly check at gate. Here is my experience with Scoot and airasia. Context - I was flying with a laptop bag and cabin bag in all the following incidents:

1. MAA - SIN (Scoot): Arrived at the airport early. Scoot checkin counter wasn't open then. Scoot has 10 kg allowance. I went to an empty indigo counter and asked the lady if I can check the weight of my bag. She nodded affirmative. I found my bag was overweight by 2 kgs. I started wearing few more layers and kept powerbank, charger etc in my jacket. At the Scoot counter they asked me to put my laptop bag also along with cabin bag on scale. It was 11 kg in total. She was looking at my bag for a while (thinking what to do). I said, there is waterbottle which I can take out if necessary. The she said "no problem".

When I was waiting near gate to board, someone from scoot was approacing everyone and requesting to give the bag as checkin as flight was full. I happily gave it.

2. SIN - DPS (Scoot): Nobody was checking any weight here.

3. CGK - KUL (AirAsia): Cabin baggage limit 7kg. I met a fellow Indian traveller at the checkin queue. We both were worried about excess weight. We deviced a plan. He will wait with my cabin bag a little faraway from the counter while I checkin, and when I am finished, i'll wait for him with his checkin bag, so that at the counter we both will say that we have only laptop bag.

While going towards security, suddenly, everyone was asked to stand in queue and there were 2 Airasia girls with weighing scale weighing cabin baggage (not laptop bag). I was frightened. The weight came to about 10.5kg approx, but they said nothing.

4. KUL - COK (AirAsia): Cabin baggage limit 7 kg. Due to my earlier experience at CGK, I was a bit cautious this time, and also worried that my bag is overweight. Taken the boarding pass from self-checkin kiosk to avoid baggage weighing. When I proceeded towards security, Airasia guys were checking everyone for overweight luggage. I observed that they were weighing only cabin bag and not laptop bag. I quickly backed out and started putting all heavy things from cabin bag to my backpack. i knew my total weight of 2 bags were around 14kgs. I stuffed as many things possible into my backpack. my laptop bag became a lot heavier than cabin bag.

When they weighted my cabin bag at KUL, it was a little over 5kg. Although my laptop bag weight was almost double, they must have thought, how heavy it can be when cabin is 2kg less. And I went to immigration happily.
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Dhak Dhak Moments!! 😉 😉
 
telescope said:
They will certinly check at gate. Here is my experience with Scoot and airasia. Context - I was flying with a laptop bag and cabin bag in all the following incidents:

1. MAA - SIN (Scoot): Arrived at the airport early. Scoot checkin counter wasn't open then. Scoot has 10 kg allowance. I went to an empty indigo counter and asked the lady if I can check the weight of my bag. She nodded affirmative. I found my bag was overweight by 2 kgs. I started wearing few more layers and kept powerbank, charger etc in my jacket. At the Scoot counter they asked me to put my laptop bag also along with cabin bag on scale. It was 11 kg in total. She was looking at my bag for a while (thinking what to do). I said, there is waterbottle which I can take out if necessary. The she said "no problem".

When I was waiting near gate to board, someone from scoot was approacing everyone and requesting to give the bag as checkin as flight was full. I happily gave it.

2. SIN - DPS (Scoot): Nobody was checking any weight here.

3. CGK - KUL (AirAsia): Cabin baggage limit 7kg. I met a fellow Indian traveller at the checkin queue. We both were worried about excess weight. We deviced a plan. He will wait with my cabin bag a little faraway from the counter while I checkin, and when I am finished, i'll wait for him with his checkin bag, so that at the counter we both will say that we have only laptop bag.

While going towards security, suddenly, everyone was asked to stand in queue and there were 2 Airasia girls with weighing scale weighing cabin baggage (not laptop bag). I was frightened. The weight came to about 10.5kg approx, but they said nothing.

4. KUL - COK (AirAsia): Cabin baggage limit 7 kg. Due to my earlier experience at CGK, I was a bit cautious this time, and also worried that my bag is overweight. Taken the boarding pass from self-checkin kiosk to avoid baggage weighing. When I proceeded towards security, Airasia guys were checking everyone for overweight luggage. I observed that they were weighing only cabin bag and not laptop bag. I quickly backed out and started putting all heavy things from cabin bag to my backpack. i knew my total weight of 2 bags were around 14kgs. I stuffed as many things possible into my backpack. my laptop bag became a lot heavier than cabin bag.

When they weighted my cabin bag at KUL, it was a little over 5kg. Although my laptop bag weight was almost double, they must have thought, how heavy it can be when cabin is 2kg less. And I went to immigration happily.
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bro started on bp meds after this trip 😭
 
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I can confirm from personal experience that Vietjet does check. Although mine was 7.3 kg and they did not say anything (probably they saw the water bottle in side pocket which I could have emptied easily).
Many passengers were shifting their stuff here and there to manage weights.
However, I was getting an option online to buy 2 kg extra on cabin bag for $8
 
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