Hand Luggage

[theguvernor15]

Morning All,

I've booked a surprise trip for the GF's birthday.
She won't be finding out about it until the day we go, however as it's only a few days i booked hand luggage only on the plane.
What's constituted as hand luggage? I know it's a bag that's a certain size etc.
But can she take hand luggage & say her handbag or would the handbag be considered additional hand luggage?
If needs be, i'll just book a hold bag between us, but i was unsure on the above detail, usually i just pay for a hold bag & be done with it.

Flying one way with Monarch & one way with Easyjet if that makes any difference?!

[The Mad Monk]

theguvernor15 said:

Morning All,

I've booked a surprise trip for the GF's birthday.
She won't be finding out about it until the day we go, however as it's only a few days i booked hand luggage only on the plane.
What's constituted as hand luggage? I know it's a bag that's a certain size etc.
But can she take hand luggage & say her handbag or would the handbag be considered additional hand luggage?
If needs be, i'll just book a hold bag between us, but i was unsure on the above detail, usually i just pay for a hold bag & be done with it.

Flying one way with Monarch & one way with Easyjet if that makes any difference?!

http://www.easyjet.com/en/help/preparing-to-fly/baggage

Now, be honest. Was that really so difficult? I haven't done the same thing with Monarch, I will let you do that yourself.

Tch!

Huh!

Stalks off, muttering - kids today!

[theguvernor15]

Cheers, the EJ one was a lot more straightforward.
http://www.monarch.co.uk/faq/flights/baggage/hand-...

I'm making the assumption, that if she wanted to take a handbag she would need to take a smaller hand luggage bag?
I guess the solution is to put her handbag in her hand luggage until we get through the airport?

[gtidriver]

theguvernor15 said:

Cheers, the EJ one was a lot more straightforward.
http://www.monarch.co.uk/faq/flights/baggage/hand-...

I'm making the assumption, that if she wanted to take a handbag she would need to take a smaller hand luggage bag?
I guess the solution is to put her handbag in her hand luggage until we get through the airport?

Your hand bag has to be in your carry on until you get on to the plane with easy jet, and they pick people out to test fit there case into the case sizing thingy majig,. At least there's no weight restrictions for carry on like there is on Ryanair (10kg) and thomsons (6kg)

Edited by gtidriver on Tuesday 14th June 00:42

[Robertj21a]

You do realise that any female can fill a hand luggage bag/case with just her make-up ?

Where will she have the 6 dresses, trousers, shoes, jackets etc ?

Might as well book a suitcase into the hold now.

[Jarcy]

Be careful with Monarch - they run both scheduled and chartered flights, and have different rules for each regarding hand luggage.
Chartered being more restrictive. This caught us out as I followed the scheduled advice (which was all that I discovered on a brief search of the 'net), only to find out that our flight was chartered.
Bonkers when the same airline have different rules on what would otherwise be an identical aircraft. Just shows that the rules are governed entirely on profit, and not on what is safe to carry within the cabin.

These days EJ ain't such a bad airline. You know what you get when you book. Whereas Monarch are really the pits.

[mike_e]

I would worry about it. Both Airlines usually allow one piece of maximum sized cabin bag plus a duty free bag. In my eyes a handbag is going to be about the same as a duty free bag so shouldn't be an issue. If you've no hold bags, check in on-line, the only place it will ever get picked up is at boarding time and from my experience, they never look at the bags unless the flight is really full, where they start looking to put cabin bags into the hold. Wife always carries a jumper or coat and sticks her handbag under that if we need to check in at a desk.

[Jarcy]

mike_e said:

I would worry about it. Both Airlines usually allow one piece of maximum sized cabin bag plus a duty free bag. In my eyes a handbag is going to be about the same as a duty free bag so shouldn't be an issue. If you've no hold bags, check in on-line, the only place it will ever get picked up is at boarding time and from my experience, they never look at the bags unless the flight is really full, where they start looking to put cabin bags into the hold. Wife always carries a jumper or coat and sticks her handbag under that if we need to check in at a desk.

Whereas I was told that my hand luggage was overweight @ 8kg (Monarch charter flight), and had to suffer the indignity of unpacking heavy items and adding to my hold luggage bag (which now was over 23kg, but they didn't seem to care).

So on the return journey, I made sure that my hand baggage was under 5kg and put all the weighty stuff in the hold bag. But "oh no sir, your hold bag must be under 23kg". This time they couldn't care less how much the cabin bag weighted. So again I suffered the indignity of transferring weighty items, this time from hold bag to hand baggage.

[RizzoTheRat]

I fly easyjet weekly at the moment (damn you BA changing your flight times!) and regularly see people being told they have to put their handbag inside their cabin bag, plus a girl last week who was a bit upset when they pointed out her bag was too big (they had a frame thing to check sizes at the gate) and she'd have to pay an extra 45 euros to put it in the hold.

Easyjet Plus passengers are allowed to take a handbag or similar and put it under the seat in front, which is clearly a moneygrabbing exercise as there's no space/weight reason everyone couldn't do that. I'm not easyjet plus and always put anything I want on the flight in my jacket pocket and then put that under the seat and have never had a problem, so I have no idea why my jacket is different to a bag.

[Chucklehead]

Go to bag drop pre-security and say "is this flight full, because if you're going to take my bag off me at the gate, I'd rather check it now".

I do it all the time. Usually works in the UK, less frequently on return. Saves pissing about with toiletries at security, and then at the gate all you have is actual hand luggage without having to put one inside the other.

[LuS1fer]

Don't forget no fluids over 100ml, I think it is, or scissors in your hand luggage.

[TheGuru]

LuS1fer said:

Don't forget no fluids over 100ml, I think it is, or scissors in your hand luggage.

That's probably more the issue, liquids that women like to use - facial foams/washes, shampoo, conditioner, lubricant, moisturizer etc

[theguvernor15]

Thanks gents, i'll just fork out the extra for 1 hold bag e/way.
She doesn't take shed loads with her anyway, so we can share a case, if anything i take more than she does.