I took your advice and contacted XL to say I wanted the 20KG allowance since I booked my flights back in Sept/Oct last year but they have not responded at all. It won't be too much of a hardship if I can't swing it this time as we took a huge amount out with us last time. I had to laugh yesterday, I was watching some 'very old' Airline or Airport on the TV and there was a woman who had over 4x the weight limit who was flying to Bahrain. She said her husband was a pilot and had worked for Air Gulf or Gulf Air (can't remember) for many years and therefore she should be entitled to take as much weight as she wanted. Anyway, to cut a long story short the chap at the airport wouldn't let her take it, only via cargo or by paying the excess, (this was £500). She then said she would ask another passenger to take her bag who hadn't got all their weight limit and the chap at the airport told her this was illegal, and she replied, my husband told me to do this on the phone a moment ago. She said, my husband is a pilot and is your boss, and the chap said, I'm sorry madam, he is not my boss, I am his boss. It was really funny! Anyway with all the too-ing and fro-ing she missed her flight. So, moral of the story is.... even if you're married to a pilot you can't take the extra weight without paying!