Originally Posted by
PhilH
Just a quick one, there doesn't appear to be an EI board - I don't know if anyone has any recent experience of Aer Lingus cabin baggage rules. Basically, they are much more restricted ex-UK than from anywhere else and my roll-aboard will not fit within the requirements both on size and on weight (max 6kg allowed
). Details here:
http://www.aerlingus.com/cgi-bin/obe...754&Category=3
They are trying to con me out of a further €4 to check a bag in (online in advance, otherwise it's €8 at the airport). My question is that if I do OLCI what are my chances of getting away with taking it as cabin baggage at the gate? I may have a connection to make at DUB so don't want the hassle of having to sort this out at a late stage and maybe not making my flight.
Cheers for any advice on this from any regular LHR-DUB travellers.
Hi
Well I learned my lesson the hard way. Went along to checkin and they looked at my bag and made me put it thru the system. I was at the gate and noticed a few folk with larger bags and nicely asked how the man got the bag thru.
He told me he used the selfservice checkin service. Since then I always use the selfservice checkin (from DUB outwards). For flights to DUB I use the OLCI service.
Works for me everytime.
rgars