Originally Posted by
PanGalactic
OK, technically it's 14cm longer than it should be for hand luggage at 70 x 25 x 29 cm where you are allowed 56cm x 45cm x 25cm, but a lot of people bend the rules a little bit on that one don't they?

At LGW - NO!!
We're clamping down heavily on ALL hand baggage as it's causing needless delays on our flights. We're asking people to show us the hand baggage fully goes inside the gate so ........
A minority try to bend the rules, but it inconveniences everybody else as a result.