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Old Dec 2, 2018, 8:45 pm
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VH-RMD
 
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As has been discussed elsewhere; many even lightweight cabin bags weigh between 2.5 and 4kg on their own which doesn't leave an awful lot of weight space for all those valuable electronic bits and pieces and other non-hold valuables you need to carry.

Most of my Australian domestic travel these days is at the end/start of a long haul flight and my carry on weighs 4kg empty and often over 7kg when filled with electronics - iPad, phone, chargers, +/- camera if I'm bringing the DSLR, book, papers, drugs, emergency clothes (for when the luggage doesn't make it - more often than you may imagine), passports and currency - none of which I want hold checked.

What a pain to have to lug around two carry-on now... but it seems that is what we will have to do.

And as I'm usually in row 1, you can thank me for filling row 2's overhead bin with my two pieces as there is no under the seat and the row 1 bins are now crew only.
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