A teen tried sporting 13 kilos of clothes onto a funds airline to keep away from the bags price. The failed journey hack ended with a $40 wonderful.

• Adriana Ocampo, 19, wore over 13 kilos of clothes in an try and keep away from paying the bags price. 
• Ocampo was on a home Jetstar flight in Australia and posted her try on the baggage hack on TikTok.
• Jetstar advised Insider that whereas they ‘definitely see the humorous facet,’ they need to be truthful.

Airline baggage hacks are rampant on social media, however this explicit one simply did not fly.

Jetstar Airways fined Adriana Ocampo and Emily Altamura a complete of $40 after they tried to keep away from paying the bags price by donning over 13 kilos of clothes. 

The 19-year-olds have been on their method again to Adelaide from Melbourne after a women’ journey, per the New York Submit.

Each of their luggage have been method over the burden restrict of 15 kilos, in order that they determined to put on their garments to keep away from paying a $40 wonderful. 

In a viral TikTok video Ocampo posted on Could 8, she’s seen laughing because the pair piled on layer after layer of T-shirts and jackets. 

Ocampo even stuffed an iPad in her pants, and needed to undergo one other spherical of piling on extra garments after she was advised her baggage was over the restrict a second time. 

“I completely gutted out my whole baggage, to the purpose the place there was solely like three issues in my baggage — a pair of footwear, a few socks, a bag, and possibly a pair of denims,” Ocampo advised Insider. 

Sadly, their plan was a flop.

“Earlier than we went on the flight, they have been like ‘sorry, we will not allow you to on the flight like this’,” Ocampo stated. The ladies have been then dealt an ultimatum — both eliminate all the things on their physique and pay a wonderful, or they can not catch the flight, Ocampo advised Insider.

So that they went with the previous, eradicating some — however not all – of the gadgets they’d stuffed within the pockets of their jackets and pants, stated Ocampo.

“As quickly as I sat down (within the airplane), I began ripping all my layers off and stuffing it in my tote bag. And my buddy sat the entire flight in her hundred layers,” Ocampo advised Insider.

They have been already upset that their earlier flight had been canceled however have been now extra upset that they needed to pay the price.

The 2 vacationers weren’t anticipating the burden of their luggage to be checked. Ocampo’s baggage was over 28 kilos when it was first weighed, per her TikTok video. 

“Each different time I’ve flown with them they have not checked,” wrote Ocampo within the feedback of her viral TikTok video, which has garnered over 1.4 million views as of Could 23. 

Although amused, the funds airline stated that they needed to be truthful to the opposite passengers.

“Whereas we definitely see the humorous facet, we now have limits to carry-on to make it truthful for everybody,” a Jetstar spokesperson advised Insider.

“Maintaining monitor of how a lot baggage passengers deliver onboard means everybody has room for his or her belongings and we’re assembly our security necessities,” stated Jetstar.