Hand luggage

[philrose]

Ah thanks folks,  this is for a Thomas Cook flight

Thomas Cook seem to be quite strict with hand luggage and they will quite often have one of their staff check your carry on luggage as you wait to check in. On the plus side they do allow one duty free carrier bag in addition to your hand luggage....

[Highlander]

If I'm allowed 5kg/6kg/10kg/any weight as long as the bag dimensions conform, I'm filling it with 5kg/6kg/10kg/any weight as long as the bag dimensions conform

Agreed  

[Scunner]

Great, I knew I was right!

Just to look at this from another angle...

If you didn't have to pay to put a suitcase in the hold, I would be doing the opposite of what I described above - I'd be packing my suitcase and travelling without any hand baggage at all. So will you further agree that if there is any problem with the amount of cabin baggage being taken onto flights, it is a situation brought about by the airlines and not the passengers   

[Highlander]

I'll get back to you  

[AOK]

I don't see what difference 1 or 2 kg makes in Hold Luggage or hand luggage if they don't bother weighing passengers!!

[Jacqui Harvey]

That is another can of worms you have opened AOK.  However, I agree that they should start to weigh passengers too.

[Scunner]

I don't

[Jacqui Harvey]

You are not what I mean Keith.  It is passengers who are grossly over weight.  Like the man who got on one of our flights, he was so big and lucky there were three empty seats just opposite us.   The flight attendants put in ths row by himself with all the armrests up and his wife and grown up kids behind him.  When the meals came around his wife moved next to him and had to feed him his meal as he was too big and was taking up so much room he could not manage to get hold of the plate to feed himself.
Phil and I just remarked, what if there had been no spare seats, image being put next to him

[angela]

Dodgy ground!

[Bluwise]

I can't imagine the pain and embarrassment I would feel at being weighed to board a plane and then being charged extra per kilo!!   

What exactly is "grossly" overweight?  1) Spilling over one seat just a bit,  2) Could really do with two seats or 3) A three seater like above guy? 
Seating is made ridiculously narrow and I have even heard skinny-minnies complain so don't be too quick to blame us pudgies because there is no wriggle room.

And the first person to say "do something about it if you're overweight" gets a virtual slap .....