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    Your destination determines how many pieces of luggage you may take with you. The maximum weight allowance (in kilos) or number of pieces (‘PC’) that can be checked in is stated on your e-ticket.

    Flights that fall under the piece concept

    The weight concept usually applies. However, the table below shows that flight destinations that fall under the piece concept.

    Piece concept (‘PC’ on your e-ticket):
    Region Piece concept applies 

    North America

    KLM flights to and from Canada, Mexico and the United States.

    Central America

    KLM flights and connecting flights to and from Belize, Costa Rica (San Jose), Cuba (Havana), Dominican Republic (Punta Cana, Santo Domingo), El Salvador (San Salvador), Guatemala (Guatemala), Honduras (Tegucigalpa), Nicaragua (Managua) and Panama (Panama City).

    South America

    KLM flights and connecting flights to and from Argentina (Buenos Aires), Bolivia (La Paz), Brazil, Chile (Santiago de Chile), Colombia, Ecuador (Guayaquil, Quito), Paraguay (Asunción), Uruguay (Montevideo) and Venezuela.

    North Africa

    KLM flights to and from Egypt.

    East Africa

    KLM flights and connecting ‘KL code share’ flights conducted by Kenya Airways, to and from Burundi (Bujumbura), Comoros (Moroni), Congo (Lubumbashi) Ethiopia (Addis Ababa), Kenya (Nairobi and Mombassa, Kisangani), Madagascar (Antananarivo), Malawi (Lilongwe), Sudan (Khartoum), Tanzania (Kilimanjaro and Dar es Salaam), Rwanda (Kigali), Uganda (Entebbe), Zambia (Lusaka) and Zimbabwe (Harare). Air France flights to and from Kinshasa and Brazzaville.

    West Africa

    KLM flights and connecting ‘KL code share’ flights conducted by Air France, to and from Benin (Cotonou), Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou), Central African Republic (Bangui), Ivory Coast (Abidjan), Ghana (Accra), Mali (Bamako) and Nigeria (Lagos, Kano and Abuja). Air France flights to and from Djibouti, Dakar, Douala, Yaoundé, Libreville, Lomé and Point Noire.

    Polynesia (Pacific Ocean)

    KLM flights and connecting ‘KL code share’ flights conducted by Air France to and from French Polynesia (Papeete)


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