46kg of carry on?
Jun 6, 2019, 2:52 am
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46kg of carry on?
Just received the following email from BA outlining the limits of what I can take on board tomorrow (short haul CE):
We look forward to welcoming you on board your flight with British Airways tomorrow and would like to remind you that you may carry on 1 handbag/laptop bag (max. 23kg / 51lb and up to 40 x 30 x 15cm / 16 x 12 x 6in plus 1 additional cabin bag (max. 23kg / 51lb and up to 56 x 45 x 25cm / 22 x 18 x 10in).
Now I will probably manage with the 46kg allowance - but is this new? I thought BA didn't state a weight limit on cabin bags?
We look forward to welcoming you on board your flight with British Airways tomorrow and would like to remind you that you may carry on 1 handbag/laptop bag (max. 23kg / 51lb and up to 40 x 30 x 15cm / 16 x 12 x 6in plus 1 additional cabin bag (max. 23kg / 51lb and up to 56 x 45 x 25cm / 22 x 18 x 10in).
Now I will probably manage with the 46kg allowance - but is this new? I thought BA didn't state a weight limit on cabin bags?
Jun 6, 2019, 2:56 am
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Not new, at a guess it's been like this for 15 years, but unless you are a gold bullion dealer it is effectively without limit, so long as you can drag into the overheads. No-one checks this because it is infeasibly high.
Jun 6, 2019, 3:04 am
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Jun 6, 2019, 4:31 am
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I have heard mention of folks carry a lot of books. I guess uni students might be the prime users of the weight limit.
For the younger ones here, books are papery things bound together and used for reading
For the younger ones here, books are papery things bound together and used for reading
Jun 6, 2019, 4:37 am
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Mr W has travelled with lots of books in his hand luggage before. It's a nightmare for security as the scanners seem to struggle with the density of a pile of books, so everything goes to secondary every time.
Like many other habits he brought with him, I have helped him take a more security friendly approach!
Like many other habits he brought with him, I have helped him take a more security friendly approach!
Jun 6, 2019, 5:08 am
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https://blogs.scientificamerican.com...port-security/
Jun 6, 2019, 5:16 am
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I also find this useful because i can actually fit about 15-18 KG of stuff in my carry on bag.
I have not flown virgin for over a decade because they have a 10KG limit on hand luggage and its nice to not have to worry about this when flying with other carriers and BA
I have not flown virgin for over a decade because they have a 10KG limit on hand luggage and its nice to not have to worry about this when flying with other carriers and BA
Jun 6, 2019, 6:20 am
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Mr W has travelled with lots of books in his hand luggage before. It's a nightmare for security as the scanners seem to struggle with the density of a pile of books, so everything goes to secondary every time.
Like many other habits he brought with him, I have helped him take a more security friendly approach!
Like many other habits he brought with him, I have helped him take a more security friendly approach!
so secondary for suspected money laundering.
Jun 6, 2019, 7:55 am
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Guilty as charged! My very first BA flight (over 25 years ago), I was a grad student and packed a canvas duffle and a backpack to max allowable weight with books. The security guy at the x-ray asked me if I was smuggling books. The cabin crew had a laugh (one guy even called me a "silly bugger" because I was struggling to go up the stairs to the upper deck with something like 90lbs) and checked the duffle for me. All in jest, but you get the picture.Oh, back then they had economy on the upper deck. The horror! The inhumanity!! The travails of all the C and F passengers, and the indignity of having to sit below some Y butts
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Jun 6, 2019, 9:32 am
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I was lucky that that screener was working on checked bags in a landside pen at MSY. Not only did he tell me why he needed to get into the bag, he allowed me to direct him (verbally) to the place where I keep all the additional cable ties so that he could replace the ones that he'd had to cut off. Really nice guy - if TSA did Golden Tickets, I might well have given him one.