How We Verify Baggage Data

Policy effective 4 July 2026 · Applies to every number on this site

Where our numbers come from

Not all sources are equal, so we rank them. When sources disagree, the higher rank wins:

Rank 4 alone is never enough for a hard claim. Where a number rests on cross-checking rather than an official page, the page tells you and asks you to confirm at check-in. You can see this language today on our Zamzam rules table.

The dating system

Each page shows a line like "Checked: 4 July 2026". That date means a person compared the page's numbers against the sources above on that day. It is not the date the page was written, and we do not bump it for cosmetic edits. If the date is old, that is information too, and you deserve to see it.

Behind the pages sits one central dataset. A rule stored there once feeds every tool, table and article that mentions it, so a correction in one place corrects the whole site at the same moment.

The re-checking schedule

• Quarterly: every airline's core numbers (cabin size, cabin weight, checked allowance) get re-verified against the official page.
• Before peak seasons: Umrah and Zamzam rules get an extra check before Ramadan and Hajj season, because airlines adjust pilgrim policies exactly then.
• On news: when an airline announces a change, we update the dataset and note the change rather than waiting for the quarterly cycle.

What we publish and what we refuse to publish

Our dataset marks every airline record as verified or unverified. Unverified numbers do not appear as facts on this site. This is why some pages say "confirm with the airline" instead of quoting a fee: we would rather show you a gap than fill it with a guess.

Two more refusals worth knowing about. We do not copy airline text word for word; we read it and rewrite it in plain language, which forces us to actually understand the rule. And we do not use other baggage websites as a primary source, because a chain of websites copying each other is how a wrong number becomes "common knowledge".

The limits of this process, honestly

Three things can still go wrong, and you should know them.

First, airlines change rules between our checks. A fee revised on a Tuesday will be wrong on our site until we catch it. Second, fare types complicate everything: a "Lite" fare and a "Flex" fare on the same airline can carry different allowances, and your ticket is the only document that knows which one you bought. Third, the person at the gate has discretion. A strict agent on a full flight enforces limits that a relaxed agent on an empty flight ignores.

This is why every page carries the same advice: confirm with your airline before you fly. Our job is getting you 95% of the way there with verified, dated, plain-language data. The last 5% belongs to your ticket and your airline.

Correction policy: how to report an error

Why we hold ourselves to this

A wrong dimension on a recipe blog wastes flour. A wrong dimension on a baggage site costs a family thousands of rupees at the excess counter, or leaves a pilgrim's Zamzam behind at Jeddah airport. We built this process because the cost of being wrong here is real, measured in money and in moments that matter to people. Dated data, named sources and public corrections are the price of being trusted with that.