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I’ve Passed the 7kg Scale at 47 Budget Airline Gates. Here’s the Exact Tech List That Got Me Through.

The moment that broke me was a Ryanair gate in Stansted. My bag was 7.3kg. The agent was in no mood for negotiation. I paid £55 to check a bag I’d carried on every flight for the previous four months, and I spent the entire flight doing mental accounting — trying to figure out where […]

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