In around twenty airlines, hand baggage will have to measure 40 x 30 x 15 cm at the end of summer 2025. – Credit: Syspeo / Sipa / Sypeo / Sipa
For your hand luggage by plane, finished the puzzle of the dimensions. At the end of the summer of 2025, the authorized size will be standardized by around twenty European airlines. The announcement was made in early July by the Airlines for Europe association, including Air France-KLM, Lufthansa Group, Easyjet or Ryanair.
Be careful not to confuse the cabin suitcase and free hand luggage. Whoever is concerned is this little background that each passenger can take with him and slide under the siege in front of him. The A4E companies have decided that this authorized bag will now have to measure 40 x 30 x 15 cm.
“A first advance” for passengers
Despite this new rule of flexibility, it remains difficult to use this baggage as a suitcase, because the existing dimensions simply make it possible to bring a handbag or a backpack. As BFM Business notes, “it is almost impossible to find small cabin suitcases 15 centimeters in width, the smallest making at least 18 centimeters in width”.
For its part, Anaïs Escudié, founder of the compensation solution delayvol.fr, is delighted with this standardization that she considers to be “a first advance because certain companies made sure to regularly modify their general conditions and in particular the size of the luggage so that the passengers have a surplus to settle”. Before applying this decision, each wine […] Read more