When hand luggage, it can arrive to centimeters

From backpack to roller case: Hardly anyone goes on board an aircraft without hand luggage. Some only travel with it – partly to save money for abandoned suitcases that collect more and more airlines. But this brings excesses with it: « Many people are now dragging more than one hand luggage piece that is often too large. Either not knowing how the hand luggage regulations are at the airline, or knowingly ignoring them, » observes the flight attendant Nikolaus Moehren.

« This also causes additional problems because the luggage compartments sometimes overflow on fully booked flights after half of the board. » Moehren works as a cabin boss at Lufthansa and works at the FLIESTREUBUSTER union UFO, among others, in the flight safety working group. He says: « The basic solution would be that you just look into your booking shortly beforehand: What can I take with me at all? »

A question of centimeters and kilos

This is not only recommended with a view to the nerves of the on -board staff and out of consideration for the other passengers – but also with a view to your own wallet. Because airlines have exact requirements for measurement and weight in hand luggage, and they are not uniform. If you violate this, you cannot always hope for goodwill, but may be asked for the too large piece of luggage to the checkout at the airport.

At Lufthansa, it can measure a maximum of 55 by 40 by 23 centimeters in the economy tariff. At Condor it is only 55 by 40 by 20 centimeters-here the hand luggage piece in the cheapest economy light tariff also costs extra: depending on the route from around ten euros. With Condor, only a small bag with the dimensions is allowed 40 by 30 by 10 centimeters at Condor. With the Luxair, the hand luggage can be 55 by 40 by 23 centimeters in size.

Already these examples show: Moehrens’s advice to see exactly what can be seen on board before the flight. In recent years, airlines have shrunk the permissible hand luggage sizes, as the magazine « Reise & Prices » reports in their current issue. And: Condor is not alone with the extra fees for the cabin trolleys in his light tariff. Among other things, the low -cost airlines Easyjet, Ryanair and Wizzair keep it similarly and require serves for larger cabin luggage.

The luxair also falls juicy 75 euros when the hand luggage dimensions are exceeded. To hope that an airline will turn too much to an eye at a few centimeters is already risky for the Airlines mentioned. According to the report, it is absolutely not advisable in the United States. There, at the latest the first domestic flight, the first domestic flight is measured and relentlessly collected, writes « Travel & Prizes ».

A question of centimeters and kilos

In Europe, the following applies to liquids in general: only in containers up to 100 milliliters that are stowed away in a transparent plastic bag with a volume of a maximum of one liter, they can be taken into the cabin. The fluid rule had been exposed to new CT luggage scanners on some German control traces-but it has been in place again without exception since early September 2024. That is why larger bottles are generally prohibited in hand luggage. Exceptions are bottles that passengers buy in Duty-Free shops after security control, for example.

While large shower gels are stayed at home or stowed away in the task baggage, some things are not allowed to go to the cargo dream: Powerbanks, for example, have to go to the hand luggage for safety reasons. Which number and capacity are allowed can vary from airline to airline. In any case, the following applies: online can usually be found in every airline, which is quite detailed information on what and what is not allowed in the hand luggage. It is best to read in there before the flight – on the occasion you can check out how big and heavy backpack or roller case can be.