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Offline honeycombe

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Hand luggage
« on: February 14, 2015, 10:01:49 AM »
Anyone travelled from Gatwick to Dalaman recently and can advise how strict they are with weight and size of hand baggage please.   Wondering if they are now weighing the hand baggage?



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Re: Hand luggage
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2015, 10:03:01 AM »
You'd need to say which airline for an answer to that...

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Re: Hand luggage
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2015, 10:53:02 AM »
No matter which airline, very I would hope.

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Re: Hand luggage
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2015, 13:45:48 PM »
Hi, we flew from Manchester recently with Thomas Cook and they did weigh our bags.  However, Thomas Cook allows 6kgs now.

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Re: Hand luggage
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2015, 14:44:06 PM »
And 6kgs ain't much once you've included the weight of a 'carry on' suitcase !!!

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Re: Hand luggage
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2015, 14:46:52 PM »
The many times we have travelled to Dalaman.  I can think of a few times when hand luggage was weighed in the U.K.  It just depends on how busy the airline are with passengers.   I remember them weighing our hand luggage a couple of years ago and Phil was a little bit over, they made him take out a book and put it in his pocket.  As soon as we got through, he put it back in his bag.
I also remember them weight hand luggage at Dalaman and making a couple pay £16.00 per kilo excess as they had overweight hand luggage and their suitcases were just on the limit, so they could not transfer anything from their hand luggage into their suitcases.  They had to pay for 3 kilos excess. 

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Re: Hand luggage
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2015, 15:24:25 PM »
No weight limit with EasyJet, providing you keep within the specified size limits & you can lift your bag into the overhead locker, unaided  8)

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Re: Hand luggage
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2015, 16:34:04 PM »
I gave up with the cabin bag sized suitcase, and used a big Tesco bag for life. Not very classy but it worked for me, as it weighed about 2 grammes of my 6 kilos!

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Re: Hand luggage
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2015, 18:15:24 PM »
I was going to do the same  Angela as my bag for life weighed nothing and my hand luggage case weighed 3 kilo with nothing in it..
However Debenhams had a sale on recently and had luggage by Tripp so I bought a hand luggage bag that weighs 0.6 kilo I'm really pleased with it  :)

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Re: Hand luggage
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2015, 18:18:10 PM »
Ah thanks folks,  this is for a Thomas Cook flight




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