Has anyone else been ripped off by Emirates for excess baggage? At £35 per kilo! In September 2008 Emirates withdrew their "migration" tickets apparently, which had a 40kg baggage allowance per person. We booked our flights in October 2008, when they gave us 20kg allowance per person from Newcastle, via Dubai to Perth, Australia. Knowing this would not be enough I checked with our movers, Pickfords, for some airfreight and they priced 150kg of unaccompanied air baggage, to be collected from our house and to be picked up... read full review »