Malaysia Airlines lifts baggage restrictions
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Malaysia Airlines has lifted a temporary restriction that banned passengers from checking in baggage on certain flights to Europe.
The airline imposed the measure earlier this week, citing “unreasonably strong headwinds”, which were causing aircraft to take a longer flight path and guzzle more fuel than usual. As a result, the national carrier limited passengers to just one 7kg cabin bag in economy class and two bags of up to 14kg for business and first class travellers.
But according to an advisory on its website on Wednesday, these restrictions have now been lifted.
“All Malaysia Airlines’ flights from Kuala Lumpur to London, Paris and Amsterdam from tonight, 6 January 2016, will resume flying its normal route. Normal baggage allowance has also been restored,” the airline stated.
This means that passengers are now able to check in two pieces of luggage of up to 30kg for economy class, 40kg for business class and 50kg for first class.
According to aircraft tracking site FlightRadar24, Malaysia Airlines’ European flights were being redirected across the centre of the Arabian Peninsula, before turning north up through Egypt, across the eastern Mediterranean and entering Europe over Greece.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was flying the Amsterdam-KL route, was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, and last year Cathay Pacific re-routed its European flights due to the potential threat of Russian missiles being fired into Syria from the Caspian Sea.
Last month a Malaysia Airlines flight from Auckland strayed off course after pilots inadvertently followed an incorrect flight plan.
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