pete jackson

Can anyone advise us what to do with our laptop, should be put it with our shipment items which will take a long time to get to us or take it on the plane? If we take it on the plane can we take it as extra ontop of our normal hand luggage allowance??

Thanks Pete.

AlCo

Definitely take it as and luggage, they are too easy to go walkies . Most airlines let you take a laptop in addition to your hand luggage, just check on their websites.

HTH.

marco121068

Yep - that's what I'd say too. It'll come in handy when you get there too.

Ozzidoc

Agree big time!!!

AlCo

And if you get really board on the flight you can use it! Some of them have wireless broadband available on the plane...

The Bloke

Word of warning, don't put it where it can't be reached easy as you will have to remove the laptop from its case and put it through the xray scanners separately.

JAYMAC

Hi Pete,

We carried ours on to the plane as hand luggage and it wasnt too much hassle. we even linked into the wireless internet at the airport and had a last few words with the family from the airport as we arrived there far too early.

Julia

si.young

I carried mine on the plane awell.

Hutch

Geeks that we are, me and the missus will be packing a Sony Vaio each this time round - no way I'd stick 'em in the hold. Lot of the planes have cigarette style power adapters underneath the seat that you can use with a transformer. Helps when you're bored of watching 'The 40 Year Old Virgin' for the third time.

thribble

LOL! Emirates will charge your laptop for you. They let you take it as handluggage aswell - just be careful not to put too much extra stuff in the bag, as they were strict with us over the weight limit for individual items, incase they fall out onto peoples heads.
If your laptop has a DVD player in it, bring some DVDs on the plane too - they'll also come in handy before you get a TV etc in Oz.

Ozzy dog

Hi,

4 out of the 5 of us that travelled took our laptops in our cabin cases. We were VERY aware that they were well over the weight limit - so we tried to handle them as though they were very light - LOL. We did have to open our cabin cases and they even open the CD drives. Nothing to hide so no probs (except the weight)

Would not put them in case.

Good luck

Tracey

Wol

New EU regulations coming in very shortly (now, where have I heard *that* before) concerning all luggage. 23Kg max on checked bags (H & S).

They are going to the "number of bags" system rather than weight.

Laptops are allowed in addition to the hand baggage.

Check with the airline first!

JackTheLad

Don't get your hopes up as the charges for wireless broadband onboard is very expensive.

Mrs JTL

thebears

I carried mine all the way - its big too with 17inch screen. They gave me extra allowance so had normal carryon plus the laptop - but check with respective airline.

JackTheLad

Get one of these!!! And you can use it all flight!


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