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Air Tanzania publishes its checked allowance by region. On the Nairobi sector and everywhere else inside Africa it is two pieces of 23kg in both Economy and Business, and Africa to another continent adds a third piece in Business. Domestic flights carry one bag, 23kg in Economy and 30kg in Business. The number that catches people on a safari is none of those: the light aircraft into the parks and out to the islands carry far less and usually want a soft bag, so we check the tightest limit on your itinerary rather than the most generous.

No alliance. Its own programme is Twiga Miles, whose Gold Serengeti tier publishes 10kg of free baggage every time a member flies on an Air Tanzania operated flight, priority bag tags and priority check-in at Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar. On the journeys we build down there the miles are rarely the useful part: what matters is that the international sector and the domestic ones sit on one booking, so when a game drive runs long there is one consultant holding the whole thing.

Send the shape of the safari rather than the flight numbers. We ticket the international sector and the domestic ones together so they answer to each other, and we check the tightest baggage limit on the itinerary rather than the most generous. The fare and its rules go to you in writing, the ticket is issued in Nairobi by an IATA-accredited agent, and when the day moves there is one consultant holding the whole booking. How ticketing works here has the rest.