In message , at 09:04:04 on Sun,
22 Feb 2009, Neil Williams remarked:
That's a somewhat different agenda, and could be assisted by allowing a
much more generous carry-on allowance.

The issue with this, apart from that it's the Government and BAA that
restrict it by size and to 2 items (all airports now?),

The "2 items" is a bid to reduce security queues, but I don't think the
*airports* have an agenda to restrict carry-on size, other than as part
of a general agreement with the airlines. In fact I think Heathrow is
the only airport where I've seen the "does your bag fit" gauges (in the
transit area) and policed by security people - rather than at the
check-in desk or the gate and policed by the airline staff.

From my observations at EMA, the gate gauges are used primarily to
extract some extra revenue from passengers whose bags are half an inch
too big, rather than to trap those people with hugely oversize bags.

is that there won't be room for it all.

Easyjet seems to cope.

Didn't Ryanair announce recently that even your shopping has to fit in
the "one bag" in order to try to reduce this issue?

I noticed such a rule, didn't know how new it was.

That said, they could perhaps consider fitting larger luggage areas to
the passenger cabin, though this would reduce seats, and unlike XC
(say) they can't exactly take a standing load.

Came back from Berlin on a very new Ryanair plane last week (first time
I've flown with them in perhaps 15 years) and was very impressed at the
size of the luggage bins (much larger than normal - actually had to
stand on a seat to reach my bag which had slid to the back of the bin)
and also lots of space under the seats.
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Roland Perry