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Excess baggage

Items that exceed a customer's baggage allowance will be charged as excess baggage.

Tier

Description

Excess rate £

Excess rate €

Tier 1bmi operated flights within the UK, including Jersey and Dublin£8 per kg€11 per kg
Tier 2bmi operated flights between tier 1 stations and all stations within Western Europe, together with Moscow and Tel Aviv£10 per kg€13 per kg
Tier 3bmi operated flights between any station in tiers 1 and 2 and Addis Ababa, Aleppo, Almaty, Amman, Baku, Beirut, Bishkek, Cairo, Damascus, Freetown, Khartoum, Tbilisi, Tehran and Yerevan£15 per kg€19 per kg
Tier 4bmi operated flights between any station in tier 1 and 2 and Dammam, Jeddah and Riyadh£20 per kg€25 per kg

Customers travelling between Beirut and Khartoum or Amman and Addis Ababa are charged excess baggage at £10/€13 per kg.

Important information

The above charges in other currencies may fluctuate depending on the exchange rate at the time of calculation.

If your customer's journey has been booked on a single ticket and goes via another location i.e. Edinburgh-Heathrow-Amsterdam only one charge will apply - once outbound and once inbound. If a passenger chooses to book the same journey but on separate tickets i.e. Edinburgh-Heathrow and then Heathrow-Amsterdam, the journey will be charged £8/€11 per kg for the first sector and £10/€13 for the second sector.

Non-bmi operated routes

If your customer is travelling on non-bmi operated (codeshare) flights, or connecting to a codeshare flight, excess baggage charges will apply and are calculated on an individual route basis - please contact our trade helpline on contact us for advice. 

Examples as follows:

  • Within Europe (exclusive of Austria, Finland and Bulgaria) 1.4% of the full one way economy (Y) fare
  • From Austria, Finland and Bulgaria - 1% of the normal one way Y fare
  • From Europe and the Middle East to Australia/New Zealand 1% of the normal one way Y fare
  • All others 1.5% of the normal one way fare where the weight concept applies.