Keith Moon

Hello,

I am thinking of booking a flight with the Emirates Airline, now obviously i cannot get my drum kit in my luggage, but was wondering what i could get in?

Does anyone know what is the size or weight limit of your hand luggage?

You see i have a bag, its a nice bag, quite a large one, its green. The sizes are;

Length 50cm
Width 27cm
Height 30cm

Will this size be ok to take on board as my hand luggage, or is it too big?

Cheers Keith

Roadking

No way will they allow that as hand luggage. Green bags are banned.

louie

See here - http://www.emirates.com/english/help...x?faqId=214915

Keith Moon

Thanks very much louie.

Mine is;

Length 50cm Width 27cm Height 30cm

or

Length 50cm Height 30cm Width 27cm

Economy Class passengers are permitted one (1) piece of carry-on baggage, subject to the following size and weight limitations:

Handbag: 55 cm x 38 cm x 20 cm (22” x 15” x 8”)



Do you thinik i wll get away with it? Otherwide it's Tesco carrier bags, i love my green bag!

Deutschmaster

If your bag is oversized have somebody hide around the corner while you check in and pass it to you after

Pollyana

A well practiced trick by us seasoned travellers

Babsw

Be careful, when we flew with Emirates they labelled all our hand luggage and weighed it and wrote the weight of each piece of luggage on the label.We were also told any extra to whatwe had labels/weight for would be charged.We were over on weight and the guy let us stuff some bits into our suitcases and the rest we loaded into our pockets.They didn't actually weigh the bags again but it made us not put any more into them and other people tol us they had had their hand luggage weighed again.

Keith Moon

Umm, you gotta me worried now, is there any way without massive cost to get two suitcases each on a migration flight with an already validated visa?

I love my green bag.

sassie

Don't forget that you are potentially allowed 37 kgs in economy now. 30 kgs in the hold and 7 kgs in the cabin.

sassie

Don't forget with Emirates, you potentially get an allowance of 37 kgs in economy now. 30 kgs in the hold and 7 kgs in the cabin.

Babsw

Has that come in recently? We flew Oct 2008 and were allowed 20kg per person and 7kg each in hand luggage ( a laptop bag was allowed as an extra) and that was in economy.

louie

Yes, last week http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=608121

Babsw

Wow, thats terrific news!
Now you can get that that green bag checked in as luggage if they won't accept it as hand luggage.
Must tell my OH as he is travelling back to UK for a family wedding,
aha! just thought: he booked his flight before xmas so it won't count for him will it? Didn't it say booking s before May 2009?

Keith Moon

Is that for sure, a laptop bag can be an extra? Is just if Ms Moon decides to accompany me then, we will have an extra hand luggage bag as i thought my laptop bag would be our second bag? Its just my laptop bag is one of these wider ones, you know you can get you pherifery's et al inside, quite swish, makes me look like that guy out of Wall Street Gekker?

Its one of these;

http://www.techair.co.uk/store/produ...?ProductId=128

louie

It mentioned the date in the newspaper I saw it in, but I can't see any mention of that on the FAQs on the Emirates website and it doesn't ask you for the date of booking on the luggage calculator thingy. Best to check with Emirates before you take 30kg with you though I'd say!