This Airline Passenger Did The Most Unusual Thing To Avoid Paying Excess Baggage Fee

A traveller has gone the extra mile to avoid paying for extra baggage on a flight by wearing at least 2.5kg of her clothing.

Gel Rodriguez from the Philippines shared this in a Facebook post that went viral garnering over 20,000 shares.

Upon arriving at the check-in counter at the airport, Rodriguez was informed by a staff of the airline that her hand luggage was 9kg — which was quite a bit over the weight allowance of 7kg — and she would need to pay a fee.

Unwilling to pay the excess baggage fee, she opted for a trick that has been used successfully by many before her and it worked like a charm.

She wore about 2.5 kilograms of clothes to bring down her suitcase’s weight to only 6.5 kgs.

She also shared the hilarious photo on Facebook which shows her wearing around five pairs of pants and multiple T-shirts and jackets.

“From 9kg to 6.5kg baggage #ExcessBaggageChallengeAccepted,” she wrote.

See her post below

“I didn’t want to pay the fee for the excess baggage because it was only 2 kilograms (4.4 lbs),” she told VICE.

Gel also said that she was shocked that the post went viral.

“If I had known it would go viral, I would have posed better,” she joked.