New Cabin baggage rules for 2023 Ryanair, EJ, Jet2,Tui, BA

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Ryanair:
All passenger ticket types include a small personal bag which must fit under the seat in front of you. This must be a maximum of 40cm x 20cm x 25cm.

Oversized cabin baggage will be refused at the boarding gate, or where available, placed in the hold of the aircraft for a fee of €/£69.99 (fee subject to VAT on domestic flights at applicable government rates).

EJ:
You can take one small cabin bag per person on board for free. It can be a maximum size of 45cm x 36cm x 20 cm (including any handles or wheels) and needs to fit under the seat in front of you. It can be up to 15kg and you’ll need to be able to carry it onboard yourself.

Any bag over these restrictions will incur a £39.99 charge and will go in the hold.

Jet2:
Passengers can carry on board one piece of hand luggage free of charge, weighing no more than 10kg no larger than 56cm x 45cm x 25cm, including any wheels and handles.

Tui:
On a TUI Airways flight, you can carry one piece of hand luggage of up to 10kg for free. The maximum dimensions of your hand luggage can be 55cm x 40cm x 20cm and you must be able to lift your hand luggage into the overhead storage compartments yourself.

You’ll get no extra allowance for things like laptops, handbags and items bought at the airport - they must fit within your one piece of hand luggage.

BA:
Customers on British Airways flights can take hand luggage and one small item on board. Hand luggage should be no bigger than 56cm x 45cm x 25cm and the small item limited to 40cm x 30cm x 15cm.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/ryanair-easyjet-jet2-tui-and-british-airways-hand-luggage-rules-for-2023/ar-AA1652h7?cvid=da42d185ff514141a20b06d07bdc5aad

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Can you still take an umbrella on BA in addition to the small item and the hand-luggage, we must be told!

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Not sure what’s new about any of those rules. They look the same as the 2022 rules to me.

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TUI have reduced the weight for board/ski carriage down to 15kgs. No longer can I take both in one bag now. Sad

This could be the final straw for me and package holidays, if we number 3 or more I think we'll drive down from now on.

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I see Amazon are selling bags designed for each airline, to there maximum free size

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@gixxerniknik, I wonder if any snowHeads travelling with TUI soon could confirm whether compliance with that 15kg bag limit is actually monitored and enforced?

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@brianatab, very useful timely summary Smile

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@PeakyB, I flew Glasgow to Salzburg with TUI today and they certainly weighed my ski bag. It was 17.5kg as it had two pairs of skis in it but no issue as I’d paid for two pairs. If youn take 2 sets of skis they can be in individual bags max 15kg each or one double bag max 23kg.

Didn't they all have the same size rules a few years ago, so you could just buy the one size cabin bag and it worked for all of them,
before the race to the smallest started?

I notice Ryanair's cabin bag is about the same volume as BA's second one?

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I use Avios to fly BA Club to
Innsbruck or Salzburg. Excellent value with no worries about luggage. Skis (two sets) and suitcase in the hold, boots too, or in the cabin with helmet on back pack.

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@Valkyrie, That's very good info, I hadn't got that.

@PeakyB, weighed both the ski bags we had at Innsbruck on a flight to Luton today. Both were about 10kg so not an issue so no idea about enforcement!

You know it makes sense.

@gixxerniknik, It’s been 15kg per bag for as long as I can remember, but the price has significantly increased in the past few years. How we yearn for the £15/no weight limit costs of long ago.

From the website - “Ski carriage:

You can buy ski carriage on the Flight Extras website. It's sold per set of skis or snowboard (not per bag) – one set of skis or one snowboard in one bag costs £50 and the maximum weight is 15kg. To take two sets of skis or two snowboards in one bag, you must buy two lots of ski carriage at £50 each and the total maximum weight is 23kg.

You can also pack clothes in the bag, as long as it doesn't go over the weight limit.

You can use one of the larger wheelie bags by paying the £50 ski carriage charge, with a checked baggage allowance of 25kg total. If you choose this option, you can't take any other checked baggage.

Ski carriage doesn't include ski/board boots – these are part of your checked baggage or hand luggage allowance and must be packed in a separate bag.”

Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

Thankfully I don’t have my own skis and another reason to rent in resort. If you ski once a year it is not worth owning them with carriage, weight limits and having them serviced. It usually costs about €80-€100 a week to hire premium (maybe not top level but not cheapest) and so much less hassle. I get to ski on newish skis every year.

Also we go via train, as it works for us, even changing in Paris. One big bag and 2 boot bags between us does it perfectly.
May take 2 biggger bags this year and stuff the boot bags into it, so we can take pillows Eh oh!

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A few things to put ski ownership into a good light and make the economics better
- buy second hand, let someone else take the big depreciation hit, as you would with a second hand car. You can get some great skis for not much money, viz. stuff that gets sold on here.
- put more than one pair into a ski bag when flying to spread the carriage cost, I know you aren’t supposed to but have never had this or hear of this being checked, just the weight and length.
- means you know what ski you are getting rather than what the rental shop has and that its been serviced properly. I certainly have seen rental skis rented out when the bindings were poorly set up for the boot.
- you look like the real deal in the airport/train station!

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@ster,

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@Chuckles3, I've just checked, the last time I flew TUI with 2 pairs of skis was March 2015, so a while ago. Pretty sure it was 20kg limit then for the carriage and only paid for the one carriage. I just wouldn't have got the two pairs in under 15Kgs anyway.

Pretty sure every time I've flown they've weighed both normal and ski bag, once I was over but my mate was under so that's when I discovered the allowance is combined.

I've always taken a wheelie ski bag and a normal wheeled luggage bag with no problems.

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@ster. Love your reasons, but I’ve had 2nd hand skis and they were xxxx I don’t know enough about them to buy decent ones. When I’ve hired I’ve been able to have them swapped/bindings reset/serviced when taken chunks out of them with bare rocks.
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If we stick to the essentials here this could become a very useful thread.

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But are these changes? Feels like EJ haven't changed?

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It doesn't really matter if any of the dimensions/ weight limits have changed, It's still worth having a thread where the current limits can be found.

It would only take one of the companies to have reduced the size by 1cm, or weight by 1Kg, and it could have cost someone a fair chuck of money.

Some airlines can be quite lenient, but some of the above are known to be very strict, and charge every additional penny they can get out of their customers for "extras".

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These aren't comprehensive cabin bag rules though are they? Just the basic seat/free allowance?

Ryanair allow 2 (1 as listed plus a larger/10kg) with priority seats.
EasyJet allow 2 bags with some seat types (up-front, extra leg-room, speedy boarding).

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You know it makes sense.

@midgetbiker, you’d think that they could actually read and understand the policies though, wouldn’t you?

Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

unless you ski several weeks per flight or are really good skier who wants particular skis it makes much more sense to hire

I used to have my own skis and, even when carriage was cheap, the cost of that plus servicing was more than hiring for a week

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The Ryanair hand baggage size is very tight. Might be tricky fitting a ski helmet in that.

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What's people opinion on a ski helmet attached to outside of your cabin baggage. I fly BA 99% of the time and max out both my cabin baggage. Would I be pushing it if I had my helmet above this?

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@WASHOUT, been no problem when we’re done it on BA many times (and EJ). No-ones blinked an eye lid. If the worst comes to worst wear it, to protect yourself from cabin bags falling in you from the over head lockers, doesn't say you cant wear hats.

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Has anyone flown Ryan Air recently?

I have a legit Ryan Air size roll-on that my boot go in with most of my gear packed in and around them and comes under 10kg. I then have a soft sized holdall I use as my under seat bag with any other odds and ends in plus my helmet. I pack the visor inside the helmet for transport.

if the holdall were stuffed full it would be oversize, however pack lightly it would stuff into the 40x20x25cm limit, bar a small bulge for the helmet. it fits under seat no problem. As said above I could wear the helmet, put the visor in the holdall and all would fit.

Easy jet have never challenged this size of holdall even with helmet in it and EJ never challenge carrying helmet as an extra providing it will all go under your seat.

Really don't want to check anything in as getting an early flight so we have the afternoon skiing on arrival so want a swift getaway on landing

Never travelled with this set up with Ryan air, but I know they can be luggage nazis? Any first hand experience?

I travelled Ryanair in summer like that without issue. You have to book the priority option though to get the second bag allowance. Priority is also limited numbers so might not be available. They weren't letting anyone without priority through with second bag and charging them to put it in the hold.

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Yes, you'd need the Priority option. I've not travelled by air to ski for years - wouldn't have thought a helmet would go under a seat, but good to know that's an option.

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