Originally Posted by karthik
For what it's worth, Air France didn't give me any problems taking my ~5kg camera backpack and ~5kg laptop bag aboard intra-European flights, despite stating "1 piece maximum" with no mention of personal items. I was kinda worried there not having flown them before, and seeing very few people with the usual personal items you see elsewhere.
Officially, you can always have one personal item, such as a laptop, in addition to your one piece of cabin luggage with AF (except for small regional aircrafts where you may need to gate check some items). Never had a problem with that over the last ten years of flying with AF, mostly intra-European, even in Y.