Carry-On Bags: The Ultimate Guide

Archived Comments:

• zaxoma - June 25, 2009

  Love the carry-on chart, but would you please include some international carriers, such as BA, Virgin and Air Canada? Thanks and keep up the great work.

• abe - June 25, 2009

  Very useful info to have and prevent surprises. Thanks and please do post any updates. Kudos to you!

• Name: Laura - June 26, 2009

  Forgot to mention, I totally tweeted this...as it was very tweet worthy ; ) @BudgetVacation

• Carl Unger, SmarterTravel - June 26, 2009

  Thanks for the tweet!

• Martha - June 26, 2009

  This is VERY useful. A similar chart for international travel would be great. Thanks!

• Jill - June 26, 2009

  Definitely very tweetable, I've done that as well more than once with the great info on here! (@VacationExpress)

• Tomboy - June 26, 2009

  I totally agree with zaxoma about having international airlines too on all of your charts as it's important to know & sometimes harder to find out on foreign carriers. Thanks!

• ImGma

  Suggestion - One more piece of info you can add. Not all airlines return their gate-checked items to the jet-way. Some airlines send them to baggage claim (we found that out the hard way!) For instance the last time on Continental we picked up our gate-checked items on the jetway as we exited the plane. Last time on Spirit we had to pick up our gate-checked items at baggage claim -- very inconvenient! Thanx for always being so helpful!

• Julie - July 7, 2009

  Important info on carry-on luggage and airlines!

• rellim - October 20, 2009

  wish we had the chart last week for our first trip to Europe. We had no trouble flying to Europe with 3 checked bags and 2 carryon bags but flying from Berlin to Stockholm on Air Berlin we were caught with overweight carryon bags and had to pay 80 euros to check it as a 4th bag. On our research for the airline we did not find a weight limit for carryon bags. We saw many people with weighted carryon bags at the boarding gate. We wonder if we, being American, were discriminated against and fined extra fees that German nationals did not have to pay. This was unexpected and we had no recourse but to pay the fee.