Frequent Flyer Baggage Allowance 2026: What Status Actually Adds

Quick sort: status miles set your tier, award miles get redeemed for reward flights. Status miles vs award miles: only the first kind decides your baggage. Since the 2024 overhaul they're officially called Points and Qualifying Points, per the Lufthansa Group Newsroom.

Nobody actually says that out loud.

Frequent Traveller baggage allowance stays capped at one bag, Economy only. meilenoptimieren.com confirms in its 2026 rundown that the Senator bonus carries across every cabin. Eurowings goes further since 3 March 2026: Senators and HON Circle members on a SMART fare now check 2x 23 kg instead of 1x 23 kg, travel-dealz.de reported.

More pieces doesn't mean more kilos per piece, though. Each bag still stops at 23 kg, and that's where the counter gets expensive. A travel inspira Kofferwaage Digital mit Haken, bis 50 kg costs less than one excess baggage fee.

On an Economy Light fare, your frequent flyer baggage allowance from status is officially no longer available, meilenoptimieren.com confirms. Tier makes no difference.

In short: Light (Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian) and BASIC (Eurowings) are excluded from the status bonus. Even HON Circle doesn't override it.

Frequent flyers in the Vielfliegertreff forum describe an unofficial goodwill practice at the desk, where a 23 kg bag sometimes gets waved through anyway. It's never bookable online, and honestly I wouldn't plan a trip around it.

Senator maps to Star Alliance Gold, Frequent Traveller to Silver. The baggage bonus travels with you onto partner airlines too, meilenoptimieren.com notes, with the same Light and Basic exceptions.

If you use that extra piece often, one large case like the KONO Großer Reisekoffer 100 L, Hartschalenkoffer aus ABS+PC probably beats two half-empty ones. For your frequent flyer baggage allowance, what matters in the end is the fare name, not your status card.