Let's Talk About Carry-On

Carry-on luggage. While it may sound like a 1970s movie starring Sid James (if you don’t know these movies look them up!), really it is one of the biggest contributors to travel nightmares.

“Does this airline allow 4.6KG or 3.2KG, or is that
supposed to be 3.2lb or even metric lb? Am I allowed beauty products, or do
they need to be checked in, am I allowed food and drink? No I don’t think so,
last time they confiscated that at outgoing customs, or was that inbound
customs! AGHHHH!”

Yup, it’s awful. So let me explain the best policy for carry-on luggage – all or nothing. If you want a book, that’s fine you may take that onboard, but if you are going to be one of these people that
stuff all their extra socks and undies into a day bag and take it onboard with you, no! Either you fit all of your gear into that teeny-tiny bag, or you put it all into the checked in luggage.

"Why?” You might ask, a question I am only too happy to answer using reasoning akin to that of your mother – it’s for your own good! If you separate your clothes, they will never, NEVER, be able to be reassembled.

Okay, well maybe I am exaggerating, and maybe I seem bitter on the topic, but know this – I have a good reason!

So there is one particular traveller that I am aiming this at, and that is the man who overstuffs his oversized carryon bag and places it into the overhead storage, taking up the room of all the other
passengers at the same time. You sir, are someone I don’t like.

So, the moral of my rather convoluted story is: When you are travelling, be considerate. No-one wants a bag full of your dirty laundry taking up all of the overhead storage!