Passengers flying from Oman to now pay for excess cabin baggage

T TV Sunday 26/January/2020 08:48 AM
By: Times News Service

Passengers making trips from Oman on Air India, will need to pay charges, should the weight of their cabin baggage exceed the current limit of 8kg per traveller.

“Overweight hand baggage will be charged for excess weight over and above the allowed free hand-baggage allowance of 8kgs, including items purchased from duty free shops, for travel originating from Oman, with immediate effect." - Air India

Officials added that the charges for excess hand baggage will be OMR6 per kg.

In addition, officials said that the maximum permissible weight of hand baggage, even after paying for excess baggage charges, was capped at 10kgs, including duty free items.