TBM Staff - Mumbai Asiana Airlines Inc. will increase fees for excess baggage on its international flights starting from January 2, 2025. Those fees apply to baggage in excess of the airline’s free allowance.
Fees for baggage exceeding the quantity limit will go up by as much as KRW 40,000 (USD 29.66) depending on routes, Asiana said.
For short-haul routes within 90 minutes from Korea, the excess baggage fee will rise from KRW 60,000 per piece to KRW 90,000. For flights to Europe, Africa and Oceania, the fee will go from 140,000 won to 180,000 won per piece.
Every extra piece of baggage on flights to the United States will cost KRW 240,000, up from the current KRW 200,000. Asiana will also raise its excess weight fees, with 23 kilograms being the limit.
On non-U.S. international flights, each piece of baggage weighing between 24 kg and 28 kg requires passengers to pay a fee of KRW 35,000 to KRW 90,000, while pieces weighing between 29 kg and 32 kg cost passengers KRW 50,000 to KRW 110,000. Asiana will combine those weight ranges and charge passengers KRW 60,000 won to KRW 110,000.
Asiana, South Korea’s second-largest airline, said this will be its first increase of excess baggage fees since July 2019.
“Considering the rise in operation costs, among others, this was an inevitable step,” Asiana said. “We will offer a 10 per cent discount to passengers who pre-purchase additional baggage allowance.”
Due to soaring oil prices and other costs, low-cost carriers, such as Jeju Air Co., Air Seoul Inc., Jin Air Co. and Eastar Jet Co., have raised their excess baggage fees this year. (Source: The Korea Herald)
