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Topic: What do your put in carry on luggage?

gizmo
First Class Passenger
Member # 972

posted 12-05-2000 08:57 AM

We always take a large suite carrier on board. It contains the formal wear,with shoes to match, bathing suites, a change of clothes (shorts, tee shirt,flip flops), and anything else I can stuff in. I carry a large soft sided breif case type of bag with my jewelry, makeup, all documents, and paper back book. I am always so worried the airline is going to loose my luggage.

Posts: 686 | From: Kennesaw Ga. (origianlly from Philly) | Registered: Dec 1999 | IP: Logged

Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 12-05-2000 11:26 AM

Hi gizmo has an airline ever lost your luggage yet? I appreciate that it does happen.

You have opened up a whole can of worms:

I am increasingly shocked at the size of many peoples hand baggage thatthey take onto Aeroplanes, like medium sized suitcases with wheels! Such luggage often does not fit into the overhead lockers or under the seats, very easily. It seems a little dangerous and unfair on the other passengers who are travelling light!

Comments?

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K&K
First Class Passenger
Member # 1040

posted 12-05-2000 11:34 AM

Malcolm; Just returned from thanksgiving with my daughter in Denver and I could not agree with you more. They are too big and if it will fit it takes two people to get it up into the overhead. They should enforce the rules they laid out and make people check them. I also dislike the people in the back of the plane use the bins in the front. Kevin

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sympatico
First Class Passenger
Member # 797

posted 12-05-2000 11:45 AM

I take my documents, passport, jewellery camera,meds,sun glasses, house keys and of course, my wallet and travellers cheques.
Malcolm - They are cracking down here in Canada and the US as to the size of the carry on bag-on-wheels and on a recent trip 2 gals in our group were forced to check their bags on wheels - they were not happy and let it be known. I actually went out and bought a smaller one for my trip at Christmas, only because we have to change planes in Cleveland and God forbid my luggage is lost (never happened before but there is always the first time). This way I can put a change of clothes in it just in case. Mine will fit under the seat in the plane. Usually I only take a small carry on bag.

Posts: 3305 | From: Toronto, Ont. Canada | Registered: Jul 99 | IP: Logged

gizmo
First Class Passenger
Member # 972

posted 12-05-2000 12:17 PM

Malcolm,

I have had luggage lost twice on business trips, but never on a cruise. The first time it took about 24 hrs to receive it. The second time , about 4 or 5 hours.

Posts: 686 | From: Kennesaw Ga. (origianlly from Philly) | Registered: Dec 1999 | IP: Logged

Steve Read (sread)
First Class Passenger
Member # 788

posted 12-05-2000 01:39 PM

I'm with Malcolm on this one ... especially when you're travelling on a charter flight (eg Airtours) and locker space is at a premium.
I've never had baggage go missing, but I've known it not show up at the cabin until after midnight (Costa Atlantica). Sat through a black-tie dinner in a very grim T-shirt!
Of course, She Who Must Be Obeyed has a different view. Maybe she'd do better with saddle-bags!

Posts: 926 | From: Locksbottom, Kent, England | Registered: Jul 99 | IP: Logged

Paddy
First Class Passenger
Member # 357

posted 12-05-2000 04:34 PM

I manage to squueze my personal CD player, 20 CDs, sunglasses, 3 newspapers, 3 magazines, my Stephen King paperback, tickets, passports, sweeties, bathing suit, t-shirt, sunblock, mobile phone, and travel monopoly into my wee backpack so I don see why anyone should be not checking in any less than that (except for handbags and then duty frees from the departure lounge). When I was getting on a plane from Belfast to Lanzarote the overhead locker above me contained 2 large bags of potatoes. I mean what were they thinking???

sread, what do you mean about the locker space being limited on a charter? Surely they are the same size on Airtours A320s and British Airways A320s?

Paddy.

P.S. I getcha now, they are the same size and number but there are more people using them. True, but I have always found charters to be more strict on this front, weighing carryons to make sure they are less than 5kg and only one per person.

Posts: 763 | From: Belfast, Ireland | Registered: Aug 99 | IP: Logged

Panos
First Class Passenger
Member # 1022

posted 12-05-2000 05:11 PM

Paddy,
I agree with you that both planes are the same and therefore the same space is available for luggage. But if you compare the number of passengers that the planes of each company take you will see that Airtours' A320 takes more people than BA ones. The Airbus industrie does not specify the exact no of passengers but gives out a range. Some air carriers operate their fleet with smaller and some with larger capacities.
Foe example Swissair has 132 seats in an A320
whereas Air2000 has 180!!! (info taken from their webpage)
For more information you can also check
www.airbus.com

[This message has been edited by Pan (edited 12-05-2000).]

Posts: 443 | From: Cyprus | Registered: Jan 2000 | IP: Logged

tomc
First Class Passenger
Member # 1624

posted 12-05-2000 05:26 PM

I carry on my person whatever I don't want to lose when I have to evacuate the airplane. Medications (for epilepsy ... miss one day and I might be dead), passport, etc. My question is, "Will I need this when I hit the bottom of the slide?" If it's essential, it's in a pocket somewhere.

Posts: 78 | From: Wilkes-Barre PA USA | Registered: Oct 2000 | IP: Logged

Steve Read (sread)
First Class Passenger
Member # 788

posted 12-05-2000 08:41 PM

Tomc: Interesting and intriguing question.

Paddy and Pan: Yes, that's the point I was making, same locker space but more passengers. (Paddy, I've now got this terrible mental picture of you going down the emergency slide, while pulling on your swimmers, slapping on the sun-block and shouting "Last one to the aft pool's a cissy!")

A friend of mine flew Air Zimbabwe back to Harare the other week. Passengers' hand-luggage was weighed at check-in. But then at the departure gate they were re-weighed, and charged cash if the weight had increased. No bags were refused as long as they paid. Serves them right for trying to cheat, but it does strike me more as a money-making scam than anything to do with weight, safety etc.

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K&K
First Class Passenger
Member # 1040

posted 12-05-2000 09:48 PM

sread; I think it was intended as and started as a saftey thing and the air carriers have seen a way to make some pocket change. If my wife's suit case was just a tiny bit bigger (it is not that big) would have cost $75.00 on United it was Thanksgiving and space was a premium, if it matters.

Just as showing your ID the airlines fell into a windfall there.
Kevin

Posts: 446 | From: Sandpoint,Idaho,USA | Registered: Jan 2000 | IP: Logged

Scottylass
First Class Passenger
Member # 420

posted 12-06-2000 02:42 AM

I have been charged £70 for overweight luggage, and there was no difference in what the cases contained from on the outward journey, it was all down to an bolshy KLM employee in Amsterdam who said if we didnt pay, we didnt fly. Definitely a money spinner.

Sread - loved your visions of Paddy evacuating a plane, you and Malcolm should get together to form a comedy duo and get some work with the cruise lines, I am sure you would have everyone in stitches.

Cheers
M.

[This message has been edited by Scottylass (edited 12-06-2000).]

Posts: 648 | From: Stirlingshire, Scotland | Registered: Jul 99 | IP: Logged

Paddy
First Class Passenger
Member # 357

posted 12-06-2000 01:17 PM

sread, that is the funniest thing I have heard in ages. Muhahahahaha.

Paddy.

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Steve Read (sread)
First Class Passenger
Member # 788

posted 12-06-2000 07:27 PM

Another thing on the hand-luggage rip-off. Seems you can't put anything in your pre-weighed hand-luggage, but you *can* stagger on with Duty Free bags loaded up with heavy stuff like booze -- which you can't buy until after the weighing-in -- which probably weigh more.

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