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Originally Posted by ColinD
Let's speculate on one other freight scenario - the flight is full of tourists going to a resort country in peak season (e.g. Thailand in January) , so it's neither close to weight or volume on freight. So then they just scre-over the hapless biker to make up for low freight revenue...because they can. 
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Yep, you might be right there. I think you're in the hands of the airlines and forwarders and it's a matter of negotiation to get through it with a better deal.
Maybe you could show to a freight forwarder in a good mood that you could compact your bike down to a size where Vol weight equals actual weight, get him to give you a price on actual weight, but negotiate it going on a flight that's empty enough for the compacting not to actually be needed. (Maybe there are lots of such flights).
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Originally Posted by maximondo
Just be nice!! I went in Brisbane with my XR250 got my Dangerous Certificate and then, I went to Quantas and started that process... it was a gamble to wiether they would charge me volume weight or kg weight but the gamble paided off and they only charged me for the actual weight of the bike.
Best of Luck!
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This is probably the key!
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