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New cabin bag guarantee on all flights from 2 July.

Make sure your cabin bag travels with you.

Our customers have told us they want to keep their cabin bag with them – and not have to put it in the hold on busy flights where overhead locker space is limited.

And now you can. Our new cabin bag guarantee means you can make sure your bag travels with you in the cabin, even on the busiest flights.

To take advantage of the guarantee, simply bring ONE slightly smaller bag no bigger than 50 x40 x 20cm including handles and wheels and we’ll guarantee it will travel with you either in the overhead locker or, if necessary, under the seat in front of you.

You can still choose to bring ONE slightly bigger bag up to the maximum size of 56 x 45 x 25cm including handles and wheels, but on some busy flights your bag may have to go into the hold.
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From here

In other words, EasyJet are reducing the size of allowable cabin bags. They're determined to get as bad as RyanAir, it seems!
 
Seems perfectly reasonable to me - I've seen plenty of people take 65L rucksacks on as "hand luggage" and use up all the overhead locker space.
Note that this announcement doesn't change the maximum allowable size - only what size guarantees it'll stay in the cabin. One assumes that bags still within the usual cabin size regulations but larger than the guarantee size will go in hold, but not incur a handling charge.
 
My cabin bag was purchased specifically because it meets the IATA size regs, and the kit I carry for work just fits. I don't travel RyanAir because they have a smaller bag restriction. And now I don't travel EasyJet either.
 
So first they encourage us to take bags with us rather than checking them in.. And now we're doing that - they want them back in the hold again...Wish they'd make up their minds :)
 
Of course it's worse. The new size is smaller, and they can now insist that a bag they happily carried last time I flew with them (and I've used EJ eight times in the last year) must go in the hold. Which invalidates the insurance on around ten grand's worth of gear.

No thanks.
 
jon ryan said:
Of course it's worse. The new size is smaller, and they can now insist that a bag they happily carried last time I flew with them (and I've used EJ eight times in the last year) must go in the hold. Which invalidates the insurance on around ten grand's worth of gear.

No thanks.
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But on any one of the eight occassions, if the plane had been full you could have been one of the unlucky ones who had to have your bag in the hold. At least now, there is a size which guarantees you can keep it with you (even if it is smaller than ideal) so you know in advance that you're safe.

What this also seems to tell us is that the IATA guidelines are overly-generous - i.e. if every passenger on the plane carries that amount, there's not enough room. Presumably becuase they cram in more seats than the regulations envisaged...

If this were RyanAir, they'd be charging for the cabin guarantee. :D
 
Ugh, the 20cm width is irritating. 20cm is the height that will fit under the chair in front of you.

It'll be interesting to see how this one goes. It's still essentially going to be at the discretion of the stewards and stewardesses. Get to the front of the queue, and it looks like you'd probably be ok.... Thinktank airport international bag, packed, with an ultrabook/ipad in the front pocket, is about 54x37x23cm deep.

That and... extra legroom seats come with a guarantee that your full sized cabin bag won't go in the hold. What. A. Pity. that I'll *have* to put that on expenses.


If this were RyanAir, they'd be charging for the cabin guarantee.
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goddammit I wish that ryanair would do that. Would make life so much easier.
 
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I think the trick with easyjet is to ensure you are one of the early boarders - I've sometimes paid for "speedy boarding", but another trick is ensuring you check in early so you get in the first boarding group, and keeping an eye on the boarding gate screen so you get to the gate queue fast before others. A few seconds delay can mean being behind LOADS of other passengers!
 
boliston said:
I think the trick with easyjet is to ensure you are one of the early boarders - I've sometimes paid for "speedy boarding", but another trick is ensuring you check in early so you get in the first boarding group, and keeping an eye on the boarding gate screen so you get to the gate queue fast before others. A few seconds delay can mean being behind LOADS of other passengers!
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This. Top tip :)
 
Thanks for the heads up about EasyJet. :thumbs:

Next time I plan to go away, I'll have to start checking bag dimensions of all the airlines to see if they are not sneakily doing something similar.

I would rather abandon the flight than be forced to put my bag with camera gear into the hold. On my last trip I was stuck on the plane because of the boarding bridge not working properly, and watched my bag getting taken off the plane before I did. :lol: Whilst the handlers were not being unduly rough, they were throwing bags about, and my rucksack wouldn't, but especially its contents, wouldn't fair too well. :shake:
 
boliston said:
I think the trick with easyjet is to ensure you are one of the early boarders - I've sometimes paid for "speedy boarding", but another trick is ensuring you check in early so you get in the first boarding group, and keeping an eye on the boarding gate screen so you get to the gate queue fast before others. A few seconds delay can mean being behind LOADS of other passengers!
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Yup, and I always try to be on early, but aren't they getting rid of 'early boarding' now and charging for an allocated seat? The thing is the uncertainty of it.I can't risk even the chance of having to put gear in the hold.
 
I don't know what it is like on international EasyJet flights but I have used EJ to fly from either Luton or Gatwick to/from Inverness about 10 times a year for the last eight years or so.

I have never seen anyone be asked to put their hand luggage in the size checker even though the hand luggage of many passengers was clearly far larger than the 'allowed' size. The overhead lockers get full and some people's hand luggage has to go in the hold.

If EasyJet checked everyone's hand luggage there would be plenty of room in the overhead lockers. However, I guess EasyJet don't want the hassle.

Dave
 
Tringa said:
I don't know what it is like on international EasyJet flights but I have used EJ to fly from either Luton or Gatwick to/from Inverness about 10 times a year for the last eight years or so.
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That's the problem with all these airlines, there is no consistency. :shake:

And EasyJet making this move is very sneaky. :nono: How many people who may have flown with them before who will not know about their rule change? :shrug: I haven't received and email from them telling me about it. :shrug:

And I don't understand why airlines have to have different baggage rules. :thinking: They all use very similar sized planes.

Normally you are limited, at least in the North West, and particularly Liverpool, with the destinations and airlines you can fly with, but if two airlines are going to the same destination, and are not too far away in price, EasyJet will be 2nd choice after this move if they are one of the options after this move.
 
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