New British Airways hand baggage policy and boarding plan announced

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• Frenske says:

  29 Jul29 July 08:08

  Second bag in front of you sounds like a fair policy. I thought this is not new; regularly it has been announced on busy flights (to OSL). Nevertheless plenty of times I see people stowing both bags in the overhead lockers leaving no place for people boarding after them. You see them smirking internally, but avoiding eye contact with the person desperately looking for some space.

  • Aeronaut says:

    29 Jul29 July 09:32

    I’m all right Jack…

• uk1 says:

  29 Jul29 July 08:21

  How on earth do they police a cabin full of people and ensuring all of them are putting their second item under the seat in front rather that in the overhead locker?

  • TimS says:

    29 Jul29 July 11:27

    That’s (supposedly) the point of the yellow tag.
    No yellow tagged luggage should be in the overhead bins. Obviously it relies on people not removing the tag and putting piece no.2 in the bin with piece no.1

• fiona says:

  29 Jul29 July 08:24

  Tim
  Don’t assume that your one piece of luggage will go overhead. Where is that specified? Unless it is the smaller size it can actually end up in the hold or at best under the seat

• Mummy55 says:

  29 Jul29 July 08:28

  What happens when you are traveling on the domestic leg of a club world or first long haul flight?

  • Rob says:

    29 Jul29 July 09:10

    You would continue to get the allowance of your long-haul flight.

• Scott says:

  29 Jul29 July 08:29

  23kg limit for hand luggage? Is that a typo?

  Things haven’t been quite as bad on my last few trips with priority boarding and locker space, but the bottom line is they need to stop people bringing the kitchen sink onboard! Removal of hand luggage to put into the hold and then not doing so until the following day is irresponsible – this is traditionally where people may store medicines and similar items that they really can’t do without at the other end.

  • Rob says:

    29 Jul29 July 09:10

    Not a typo

• JohnG says:

  29 Jul29 July 08:41

  The baggage change sounds like it’ll cause as much or more trouble than it solves. The 2nd item was going under the seat so wasn’t taking up locker space. We tend to travel HBO, and all this might do is lead to us using bigger primary cabin bags to hold the stuff we need to relocate.

  Can’t really disagree with the change in boarding priority; It sounds like the current system is a mess.

  • Mark says:

    29 Jul29 July 09:01

    BA is a mess full stop!

  • Sussex Bantam says:

    29 Jul29 July 09:44

    The new boarding policy worked really well last week at Basle – three lines for priority boarding – first line for CW and Gold, second line for silver, third line for bronze. All very orderly, all very pleasant !

• James67 says:

  29 Jul29 July 09:08

  It was inevitable given the inconsiderate behaviour of many passengers. However, partly BAs fault for failing to enforce size of cabin bags from outset. Despite enjoying the convenience, I also think I may prefer the return of 7kg handbaggage limits having seen effects of a heavy laptop bag fall on a womans shoulder. So, good at least, that BA going to be enforcingthe smaller bag under the seat rule as these are the items most likely to fall out I have seen overhead bins pop open sometimes by themselves, particularly during turbulence. It’s a good reason to avoid the aisle seat. The irorny is that the so called cheaper hand baggage only fares very quickly became same or more expensive than the previous cheapest fares despite low inflation and huge falls in fuel prices. Presumably when flying on a domestic connection the baggage rules that apply are those that apply for the longhsul CW or F sector?

• Marly says:

  29 Jul29 July 09:51

  This is a good policy, sick and tired of people carrying in their all house on the plane!

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