"Handbag" + Hand luggage

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I'm heading away soon and plan on travelling with hand luggage only, how anal are airlines on the number of items carried on to the plane?

I understand 1 piece of hand luggage per person, but does this include a "handbag", which all ladies seem to carry in excessive of their hand luggage.

Wondering if I can get away with a small man bag too.
 
It depends on the airline, if you're flying with someone half decent like BA you can take two pieces, (standard cabin bag + a laptop bag/handbag) but if you're flying with Ryan air or something hellish, it might be a lot stricter or expensive, just check the airlines cabin baggage allowance.
 
Yes, 1 item of hand luggage means exactly that. 1 item. If you could get away with a hand bag and a backpack. Then everyone would carry a back pack and a small bag...

You might get away with it, but if you get asked to size up your bag and store your secondary bag in it and find out it's over limit. It's going to be costly.

However, the above only carries with the low budget airliners that charge you at every chance.

BA, Virgin etc will be fine.
 
Screeeech said:
It depends on the airline, if you're flying with someone half decent like BA you can take two pieces, (standard cabin bag + a laptop bag/handbag) but if you're flying with Ryan air or something hellish, it might be a lot stricter or expensive, just check the airlines cabin baggage allowance.
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I think Ryanair give you two actually.
 
The thing is I actually have hold luggage allowance, I just don't want to use it and risk not being able to get to my next flights bag drop on time - due to land in to Gatwick at 7:55, fly out at 10:00.
 
Yeah, if I had hold luggage and it was less than an hour between flights I'd be stressing about it, but 2 hours with hand-baggage only is more than enough
 
Hmmm, I'm not sure whether I want to take that risk though, I need to travel from the South to the North terminal too, and it's a flight out to Thailand which requires bags to be at the bag drop 90 minutes before departure, officially.
 
Can confirm BA are fine with 2 bags, 1 normal hand luggage sized (e.g. quite big) and another smallish handbag sized one, e.g. you'd be fine with a backpack and a laptop case or small messenger bag etc. - you can check the sizes online.

Had no issues taking my backpack and DSLR case with me last week.

Who are you flying with is the key question here, since they all have different rules.

The no liquids over 100ml is standard across everyone, however that's going through security - once you're on the other side you can grab bottles of water/rum/whisky etc to take on the plane
 
Go to Boots of you want good value drinks and snacks at an airport.

As mentioned, all airlines are different. I have to use low cost carriers for work, KLM are fine with an accessory bag, Easy Jet are not, Ryanair are.
 
I travel with this much on BA quite often, never had a problem.

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