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Subject: [OM] Re: OT: Airline Travel Bags
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 06:29:36 +0100
You are normally allowed a carry-on alone, but no airline, surely, will 
force you to put your camera bag in the hold.  Ryanair lets me have a 
"normal" bag (my Billingham Packington or Hadley)) and a camera bag 
(Billingham 206) in the cabin.

Chris

On 19 Apr 2004, at 22:50, Piers Hemy wrote:

>
> Thomas, you didn't mention weight!
>
> I suspect that US airlines//transatlantic flights have different 
> rules, but
> IME the approach in Europe (in addition to the one bag of a given size
> principle) is to limit the weight of that bag to 5kg/6kg/9kg.  If:
> the bag looks heavy;
> the plane is 737 size;
> the flight is busy and
> you aren't travelling business class, then
> you can expect it to be weighed.
>
> I have been known to fill my pockets with the heavier pieces of glass, 
> and
> put the laptop with paper files in a large envelope to get the 
> carry-on bag
> through the check-in process (then to hide round the corner to put it 
> all
> back in the one bag to get through security)!
>
> Piers
<|_:-)_|>

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