Items that exceed a customer's baggage allowance will be charged as excess baggage.
Tier | Description | Excess rate £ | Excess rate € |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | bmi operated flights within the UK, including Jersey and Dublin | £8 per kg | €11 per kg |
| Tier 2 | bmi 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 3 | bmi 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 4 | bmi operated flights between any station in tier 1 and 2 and Dammam, Jeddah and Riyadh | £20 per kg | €25 per kg |
bmi operated USA and Caribbean
Excess baggage to the USA and Caribbean is charged per piece:
Chicago: £70/€87.50 per piece
Caribbean and Las Vegas: £90/€112.50 per piece
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 0870 606 1000 for advice.
Examples as follows: