How to avoid an excess luggage fee like these cheeky passengers

UPON discovering their luggage was overweight, these cheeky Aussie-bound blokes didn’t carry on. Instead, they did what many of us have longed to do but dismissed as too ridiculous.

Cheeky passengers outsmart airline

UPON discovering their luggage was overweight, these cheeky passengers didn’t carry on. Instead, they got creative.

Traveller Stou Sandalski told news.com.au that he witnessed the duo, who were flying from Singapore to Sydney with budget airline Scoot last Friday , being informed that one of their bags was over the “free” weight limit.

Faced with an extra fee of $130, they did what many of us have been tempted to do before but dismissed as simply too ridiculous. They unzipped their bag and put on as many items of clothing as they could possibly squeeze into, until it was no longer overweight.

That included multiple hats piled on top of each other, shoes tucked into one of their waistbands and even jeans tied around their neck.

It was such a comical sight that Sandalski posted this image onto Reddit.

“I heard some subdued chuckling a few people away and at some point these guys made it across the rope from me,” Sandalski said. “I asked to take their picture and jokingly said that I will post it on the internet to which they responded with ‘yeah’!

“These guys had found a loophole and were able to screw the airline ... and they kept jokingly offering people clothes for free.”

The flyers. Picture: Stou Sandalski

But according to Sandalski, there was an unexpected twist at the check-in desk.

A flight attendant said: “I am going to come to the gate and make sure you are still wearing everything”.

Oh dear.

We pity the passengers who had to sit next to them — it would have been a tight squeeze.

news.com.au has contacted Scoot for comment.