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Baggage Allowance Compared: Every Airline Flying LHR–Lagos

Search London to Lagos and you'll typically see options across British Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines, Qatar Airways, EgyptAir, Ethiopian Airlines, and Kenya Airways, usually with a stop somewhere along the way except on BA's direct service. Here's the honest picture on baggage — what's solid and confirmed, what genuinely varies, and why a clean table of exact numbers for all eight would do you a disservice.

The one we can confirm properly: British Airways

BA runs a piece-based system, not a weight-pooled one — your allowance is a number of bags, each capped at a set weight, rather than one combined total. On the LHR–Lagos route specifically:

• Economy Basic: no checked bag included at all — carry-on only, add a bag for a fee if you need one
• Economy Standard and above: one checked bag up to 23kg
• Premium Economy: typically two bags at 23kg each
• Business: two bags up to 32kg each

The Basic vs Standard split is the one that catches people out most — same cabin, same flight, and one fare includes a checked bag while the other doesn't.

Why we're not giving you the same table for the other seven

Royal Air Maroc, Lufthansa, Turkish, Qatar, EgyptAir, Ethiopian, and Kenya Airways all run their own fare structures, and — same lesson as our baggage confusion piece — each of those splits further by fare class, and some mix weight-based and piece-based systems depending on the routing. Publishing a specific kg figure for each one today, in an article meant to stay useful for months, is exactly how "comparison" content quietly goes stale and starts misleading people.

What's genuinely true across all of them, though:

• Full-service international carriers on this route almost always include at least one checked bag on their standard economy fare — a completely bare "carry-on only" economy ticket is more the exception here than the rule, BA's Basic fare being the clearest example of that exception.
• One-stop itineraries can complicate things — if your routing connects through the airline's hub (Doha for Qatar, Istanbul for Turkish, Casablanca for Royal Air Maroc, and so on), the baggage allowance is normally set by your through-ticket, not renegotiated leg by leg — but it's still worth confirming, especially on anything booked as separate tickets rather than one itinerary.
• The cheapest fare on any of these airlines is the one most likely to have a reduced or absent checked-bag allowance. If a price looks unusually low compared to everything else on the same date, that's often exactly why.

How to actually get the current number for your flight

This is the honest answer, not a brush-off: the only way to know your real allowance is to check the specific fare on the specific date you're looking at, because that's the only version of "the answer" that doesn't go out of date. Duosky's own search results show the baggage allowance attached to the exact fare found — not the airline's general policy page, the actual entitlement for that ticket — which is precisely why we built it that way rather than publishing our own static table and hoping it stays accurate.

The realistic checklist

• Assume nothing from the airline name alone — the fare class decides your allowance far more than which airline you picked
• A price that's noticeably cheaper than everything else on the same date is worth checking for a reduced baggage allowance, not just assumed to be a better deal
• On connecting routings, confirm whether you're on one through-ticket or separate bookings — the baggage answer can differ between the two
• Check the number attached to your actual fare, not a general guide — including, honestly, this one