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taobenli · Joined: 26 Apr 2004

I will be coming to Korea soon and flying Asiana from the U.S. (west coast). I will have two suitcases, one of which is ginormous. I am worried that this may also make it heavy. It seems that overweight/oversize baggage fees will still be cheaper than shipping to Korea, though. I won't have excess baggage, but I am quite sure the dimensions are over 158 cm, or whatever the limit is. I am trying to figure out WHAT the fees would be for this so I'm not surprised. Or does oversize bags not matter as much as overweight bags?

Missihippi · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Location: Gwangmyeong

It doesn't say on the website what the fee is:

http://us.flyasiana.com/Global/US/en/homepage?fid=INFO11313

Maybe you should call them.

quovadimusgirl · Joined: 20 Aug 2009

I will also be flying Asiana from SFO -> Incheon. I was told by my travel agent that I can check in 2 suitcases as long as they are under 50 lbs each. She said there is about a $100 fine for overweight baggage. I can only bring one carryon item with me on the plane.

Illysook · Joined: 30 Jun 2008

I weighed my suitcase empty, and it weighed 11 pounds. not wanting to waste that weight, I went and got 2 army duffle bags. One of them was a couple pounds over, but they didn't charge me. For carry-on luggage, I had a backpack and an oversized purse. It was all fine.

bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

For carry-on luggage, many airlines will allow one carry-on bag, plus a laptop. I also carry with me a front pack and camera case and have never been challenged (on both NW and KoreanAir). I have seen others bring a lot more than that (the jerkiest I saw was a family of four that brought two carry-ons+ each, along with the daughter's violin--they took up the overhead baggage space for most of a section and were never called on it even though people complained). At the same time, a few years ago, KoreanAir (at Gimpo) made me shuffle things between my carry-on and my son's when mine was an ounce overweight...