Originally Posted by
chriswiles
It could be worse, flying an expensive domestic F across the US - which is often a 3 hour journey, much like CE - I've been stung twice due to 'overweight' checked bags as the limit is 23Kg on Delta, which is easy to go over if you're on a 3-week US trip.
I still think, generally speaking, BA is generous with CE. I've never once been stopped and often I'll have my cabin bag, my laptop bag and, on occasion, a suit jacket bag. I do sometimes ask about my suit jacket bag and say "this can go in the wardrobe, right?" and told it can.
BA is certainly generous with CE, a bit to the extreme when some CE passenger tend to abuse it, but the additional issue is how they manage ET carrying excessive hand baggage, giving them priority even above CE and status holders, and still letting these ET passenger store their other cabin luggages and bags in the CE bins.
As a side note, on the return leg the gate at LIS has been managed much better than what BA did on the outbound. The priority line 1-3 had been left separate and open even when they started calling group 4 + so that a late arrival from the lounge was still allowed to go straight through.