Aegean Airlines Miles&Bonus - Hand Baggage allowance on Aegean

I'm using A3 in a few months for ATH-JMK (a 100 km dmomestic segment). Their website claims that carryon baggage is subject to a weight limit of 8 kg. This is a pretty small number if you have a correctly sized carryon rollaboard with clothes and shoes. Does anyone have any experience on whether or not A3 actually enforces this weight limit? It's an A320 so it seems a bit crazy.

If you have a correcty sized carryon rollaboard,there is no problem.
I never had a problem with my carryon rollaboard during my
flights with A3.

I'm using A3 in a few months for ATH-JMK (a 100 km dmomestic segment). Their website claims that carryon baggage is subject to a weight limit of 8 kg. This is a pretty small number if you have a correctly sized carryon rollaboard with clothes and shoes. Does anyone have any experience on whether or not A3 actually enforces this weight limit? It's an A320 so it seems a bit crazy.


Define a "correctly sized carryon." I have a 20X14X8 Tumi wheeled suitcase. With clothes for three days and one pair of shoes it was at least a kilo over. Unfortunately it seems like weight limits are sneaking into a variety of carriers. Last year whilst travelling in F LH gave me grief about the extra weight.

Define a "correctly sized carryon." I have a 20X14X8 Tumi wheeled suitcase. With clothes for three days and one pair of shoes it was at least a kilo over. Unfortunately it seems like weight limits are sneaking into a variety of carriers. Last year whilst travelling in F LH gave me grief about the extra weight.

All I can do is quote from the A3 website, which is what led me to post my original message:

"Each passenger may carry on board the plane up to two pieces of hand luggage, of which the first may not be larger than 55cm in length x 40cm in height x 20cm in width (or 20cm in length for clothes-carriers), and the second no larger than 45cm in length x 35cm in height x 20cm in width. The first item may not exceed 8 kilos in weight, and the second may not exceed 5 kilos."

I agree that if you pack a rollaboard with clothes, the weight can easily exceed 8 kg, which is why I posted my question. Most Travelpros are ever so slightly larger than 55 x 40 x 20 cm, but not much, so as long as they don't use a sizer, it shouldn't be a problem -- they will surely fit in the overheads on an A320. But if they truly did weigh the bags, no way most people will come in at 8 kg. But according to the previous poster, they do not.

The allowed sizes and pounds are very clear on each of their sites. My question has any one flown with these airlines recently? Does a purse
count as the one allowed onboard item?

dendon, welcome to FlyerTalk!

We're going to move this to a forum where it'll get a faster answer.

Safe travels.




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For Greek airlines (I fly them very, very regularly), rules are there to be broken. In brief, unless you come up with one of these oversized bags that look like a shipping container, they will certainly accept it as a carry-on. Yesterday I flew A3 with one large bag (at exactly the size limit) plus my computer bag that also contained lots of papers and two books: I showed both of them at check-in and they didn't object.

Well, a large carryon + laptop bag is allowed on most airlines, is it not on A3?

Well, a large carryon + laptop bag is allowed on most airlines, is it not on A3?Never, ever, didi I have any kind of problems. And that should also be true for a lady's purse.

Flew A3 yesterday from MXPto ATH no checked luggage(lost 2 bags on a MUC-IST-FRA-MXP mileage run) still havent got the bags back but didnt ask and took on board a backpack a laptop and a 2 very large armani shopping bags full of clothes and shoes just purchased no problems whatsoever mind u flight wasnt very full - and as always A3 were superb - much like LH:)

No troubles at all on A3 - they only issue will be locker space on busy flights.

For the record, bag delivery is pretty quick at most airports they are religious (and efficient) about delivering Priority bags first.

No troubles at all on A3 - they only issue will be locker space on busy flights.

For the record, bag delivery is pretty quick at most airports they are religious (and efficient) about delivering Priority bags first.
This has been my experience too. I do not remember the specifics of what I had on various trips to Greek islands, all in business class on A3 with some TATL interlining and some overnight connections or stopovers in ATH, but I never noticed my carry on being inspected by them for either size or weight. Their planes seem to have decent bin and underseat space. However, I do not remember any passengers attempting to board with really excessive amounts of carry on. However, remember that you will board with a bus from the terminal and then stairs in and out of the plane, so it would be better not to bring more than you can manage easily.

This morning in ATH, waiting at the gate for boarding an international flight, the A3 agent was looking at the waiting passengers and every time she saw a carry-on that was clearly bigger than allowed, she would take the person to the counter asking him/her to check it and pay 40 Euro. If the passenger had not checked anything before, it would go for free (1 pc allowed for non-*G). I also found out from what the agent was saying that if, at checkin, the agent puts a tag on your carry-on (a dark blue ribbon with the A3 logo on it), the carry-on was OKed and, even if of "illegal" dimensions, one can keep it w/o paying.

I had never before seen this, and since this was my first flight out of ATH this year, this may be a new policy! Or she was a new agent who wanted to do everything correct... :p