Turning a blind
    eye to excess baggage in an airline company, and accepting promotional gifts
Question

                I work for an airline company where I
      turn a blind eye to some passengers’ excess baggage so as to encourage them to travel
      with this airline. I do this in the company’s interests so that passengers will be
      attracted to travelling with them. So if a person’s luggage weighs more than twenty
      kilos, I do not charge them for it, to encourage them to give their custom to our company.
      I also receive promotional gifts from other companies.
Praise be to Allah.If your turning a blind eye to excess baggage is done
    with the knowledge and permission of the company, and the company considers it as a means
    of attracting passengers, then there is nothing wrong with it. But if it is an individual
    effort on your part and is done without their knowledge and permission, then you should
    not do it, because it is not up to you to turn a blind eye with regard to the rights of
    others. (This response was read to Shaykh Muhammad al-‘Uthaymeen and he agreed with
    it).
With regard to inexpensive promotional gifts, such as diaries,
    calendars, coasters and so on, that carry company names and logos and are distributed as a
    form of advertising, if they are given to everyone and not just to you, then you can take
    them.
But if they are given only to you or they are very valuable, then you
    should not take them if they are given to you, because this is a kind of bribe. You have a
    regular salary from the company which you take in return for your efforts, so do not take
    anything from anyone else for your work. This also applies to anything else that is in the
    nature of a valuable gift, such as reductions. You should not accept these, and you should
    buy from people who do not know you. The guideline in this matter should be: if you were
    in a different position and were not working for this airline company, or you were a
    student, for example, or without work, would they still give you this gift or reduction,
    or not? On this basis you will know whether to accept what is offered to you. And Allaah
    knows best.