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TripAdvisor. Hand baggage and aircraft: how does it weigh?

Did you save (money, but also waiting time to tape) with low cost flights ? Be careful because if you take the plane to baggage is not so simple: each airline makes his way and what works, for example, Alitalia, no good, for example, with Easyjet.
The low cost of recent policies are aimed at enabling the access to the aircraft with only 1 carry-on baggage. One means only one. If you are a woman, your handbag is a bag, if you are a man, your laptop bag is a bag. No stories. The mini-trolley of my Thibault, 2 and a half years, more toy bag, a bag is considered: the series, I will do I get one. As absurd as to say that I travel with a child of two years (the limit beyond which you pay the ticket) and 2 trolley: the only requirement is that you could make me bring the little trolley (hopefully not claim that the child puts the trolley in the overhead ... ..). Funny stories, but I experienced a few days ago.
Everything that goes beyond the only hand luggage, goes into the hold. This coast, in the case of low cost, the beauty of 30 euros (Venice-Rome, easyJet), cost is reduced to 11 euros if I decide to take on board at the time of purchasing the ticket online.
Scheduled airlines normally do not charge additional costs to carry your luggage (only weight limits), as well as not calculate additional costs when buying with credit card (5 to 10 euros, depending on the low cost airline and the second circuit used).

So, first tip: check the rules with which the company's flights.

Not so much the size of the baggage (more or less one knows how big it can be: the sum of height, width and depth can not exceed 1115 cm-theory, just use the appropriate demos to check in to see if " passes "-practice).
But, rather, the weight criterion against which all companies are becoming intransigent.
Ryanair: 10 kg (one piece)
Alitalia: 8 kg (with more stock)
Transavia: 5 pounds (but what can never be in a bag like that, if we consider a portal and cables often reach 3 kg ... not my MacBook, of course ....)?
Easyjet: there is no weight limit in the one hand luggage (as long as "reasonable," he says). The only condition is that "steps" in the "56 for 45 for 25" size of the box tries present at check-in.
Brussels Airline: carefully select the type of ticket (there are usually 3): everyone has different limits. In economy class (the last rows of the plane) you do not eat, there is no newspaper, and can carry up to 7 kg.
Iberia similar policy. 10 kg in economy, 14 in business, 18 in Business Plus, it might be considered excessive for a normal trolley in the hold that the limits are 20. But there it is.
Lufthansa: 8 pounds, but business-class can carry 2 pieces of hand luggage.

In short, if you go away on vacation this year by plane or grant you a weekend abroad, double check that the policies of the carrier. Go to see that fellow with the flag, you travel better and maybe even save you?

26. July 2010 by Luca Pascotto
Categories: For consumer protection , Trip (Travel) | Tags: For consumer protection , aircraft , airplane , Tourism , Travel | 4 comments