Comments on: Airline Carry-On Baggage Templates : Does Anyone Measure Them?

By: flyingfish

flyingfish — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:25:30 +0000

A way I have managed to navigate around certain airline weight restrictions is to use backpacks and developed style of carrying these backpacks that has better than a 90% success rate in avoiding gate weighing.

Happy Flying!

-Fish

By: Morgan Wong

Morgan Wong — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:53:36 +0000

I use a Titan 19″ International carry-on and I never had any problem. Only in Europe where they have a 8kg weight requirement too on top of the dimensional restriction.

By: Flying With Fish » Carry-On & Weight Baggage Limit Chart For 65 World Airlines

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:34:51 +0000

[...] have previously written about carry-on bag size limits, templates, how to get two bags on as one (for photographers) and decided to update this information with the [...]

By: David Parker Brown

David Parker Brown — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:55:59 +0000

Perfect timing for this post. You see that congressman from Illinois wants the gov’t to control the carry-on size for all airlines? http://www.theairlineblog.com/?p=1109 (heh, that pic might look familiar )

I don’t think any airline really regulates these rules. They are probably there in case they need to use them. With all the baggage fees more and more people are pushing the limits with their carry-ons.

David
The Airline Blog

By: Paul Benjamin

Paul Benjamin — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:03:35 +0000

I’m due to do another international move shortly, and so will be trying to somehow wangle all of my camera gear through the airline system. I have a nasty feeling I’m going to get abused again for having excess baggage…

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:54:02 +0000

Hi Fish;

Interesting when the Kiboko is supposed to be 8.5×14x21 inches (21.6 x 35.5 x 53.34 cm) or 43.5″ linear which means technically it should fit in any of them. Maybe I should add tape measure to my photo kit!

I ended up buying a Kiboko BTW… Air Canada is my home base airline. Hopefully they won’t hassle me every outbound I take!

Thanks for the update and happy flying to you also…

Allen…

By: flyingfish

flyingfish — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:14:37 +0000

It all depends on who you get. But yes, there are some airlines that have personnel that are known to be akin to speaking with a brick wall.

Airlines needs to start focusing on customer relations again…and I hope to write about that topic early next week in regard to a specific UK airline.

Happy Flying!

-Fish

By: Silverhalide

Silverhalide — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:10:13 +0000

“Pleading your case to a person can be done; pleading your case to an empty metal box under the disapproving eye of airline personnel is harder.”

Which once again reminds us of the chasm between persons and airline personnel.

Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week.