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Cabin bag size for Easyjet
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...we had this situation at Malaga just a few weeks ago. We said no and they moved on to someone else..
Article 19 of their terms and conditions http://www.easyjet.com/en/terms-and-conditions#a19 clearly states that
"19.1.2 If You conduct Yourself on board the aircraft or at the airport so as to:
....
(b) obstruct the crew....in the performance of their duties; or
(c) fail to comply with any instruction of the crew...;...
We may take such measures as We deem necessary to prevent continuation of such conduct, including Your...removal from the aircraft..., as well as termination of Your continued travel on a Flight...."
Their duties includes making the cabin safe for travel and includes your hand luggage going in the hold if there is no room in the over head locker or under a seat.
So ultimately passengers may have to do as they're told, some may think there are guarantees, but the cabin crew have to perform their duties for the safety of all passengers.Posts are not advice and must not be relied upon.0 -
Article 19 of their terms and conditions http://www.easyjet.com/en/terms-and-conditions#a19 clearly states that
"19.1.2 If You conduct Yourself on board the aircraft or at the airport so as to:
....
(b) obstruct the crew....in the performance of their duties; or
(c) fail to comply with any instruction of the crew...;...
We may take such measures as We deem necessary to prevent continuation of such conduct, including Your...removal from the aircraft..., as well as termination of Your continued travel on a Flight...."
Their duties includes making the cabin safe for travel and includes your hand luggage going in the hold if there is no room in the over head locker or under a seat.
So ultimately passengers may have to do as they're told, some may think there are guarantees, but the cabin crew have to perform their duties for the safety of all passengers.
You are not dealing with cabin crew before you board, but the ground staff. You can try, but you are wrong.
Even if you were already onboard....If for instance your hand luggage was within regulation and full of valuable or fragile items..they will look for someone else's bag to put in the hold..... on a voluntary basis.0 -
You are not dealing with cabin crew before you board, but the ground staff.
Article 19.1.2 in the link provided refers to crew and Airport staff...If for instance your hand luggage was within regulation and full of valuable or fragile items..they will look for someone else's bag to put in the hold..... on a voluntary basis.
There's no guarantee whatsoever that they will do that, that's your fingers crossed assumption and article 19.1.2 covers easyJet entirely.Posts are not advice and must not be relied upon.0 -
Article 19.1.2 in the link provided refers to crew and Airport staff.
There's no guarantee whatsoever that they will do that, that's your fingers crossed assumption and article 19.1.2 covers easyJet entirely.
Let's see.... twenty years of flying. Something like twenty to thirty flights per year and my hand luggage has been placed in the hold once....and that was when my hand luggage was over twice the weight limit.
Fragile items and your hand luggage will not go into the hold...under any circumstances. No need for fingers crossed.
But I appreciate you bring a cogent argument to the table.0 -
Why will that never happen? Do fragile items have some special regulation that bars them from being checked?Fragile items and your hand luggage will not go into the hold...under any circumstances.
US airlines frequently have to gate check luggage and easyJet is finding it sufficient a problem for them to introduce new rules.0 -
alanrowell wrote: »Why will that never happen? Do fragile items have some special regulation that bars them from being checked?
US airlines frequently have to gate check luggage and easyJet is finding it sufficient a problem for them to introduce new rules.
I meant fragile items in your hand luggage.
Because if they check your (within limits) hand luggage with your expensive/fragile equipment in it, they will be wholly liable for any damage caused. They'll go to the next person.
We are hardly concerned with US airlines here.
The problem is with low cost airlines who charge for hold baggage, which encourages people to carry as much in their hand luggage as possible.
The only time that I have seen a hand luggage problem was when the bag was simply too large to fit into the overhead compartment.
Even on the Malaga flight where they tagged our hand luggage and I ignored their silliness, I put both mine and my partner's bag directly in line with our seats.
So what is going to happen now is that people will rush to get in line first so that won't have any hassle or buy smaller hand luggage which means that EasyJet will have got people to reduce the size of their hand luggage in a rather underhand manner.
I for one will continue to take my standard sized hand luggage without concern. 0 -
I meant fragile items in your hand luggage.
Because if they check your (within limits) hand luggage with your expensive/fragile equipment in it, they will be wholly liable for any damage caused. They'll go to the next person.
On the easyJet Get Satisfaction forum there have been complaints from at least a couple of people that have been asked to check hand luggage and which had laptops broken as a result. So unfortunately what you're saying isn't always true.0 -
On the easyJet Get Satisfaction forum there have been complaints from at least a couple of people that have been asked to check hand luggage and which had laptops broken as a result. So unfortunately what you're saying isn't always true.
I don't want to get into hearsay. But one talks of permitted size hand luggage and then two laptops in the 'bag'. So it was a bag with two laptops? Anyway, they go on to suggest that they weren't allowed to remove all of their fragile items.
Pinch of salt I suggest.0 -
I guess it's easy to argue a point if everything that contradicts it should be taken with pinch of salt 0
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