8515 Easyjet Sticking with the 1 bag rule

Just saw this on there website;
easyJet to maintain 1 bag rule
The Government recently announced that on 7 January 2008, the restriction of one piece of hand luggage will be lifted at 22 of the UK’s airports. This will leave 40 key commercial* airports with the one bag rule still in place, including easyJet bases at Belfast, Bristol, East Midlands, Liverpool and Luton. In addition, some of the BAA airports, notably Gatwick, have applied to the CAA for a price increase.

To minimise customer confusion and avoid unnecessary increases in fares, easyJet has decided to maintain its policy of allowing each UK departing passenger to carry one piece of hand baggage (dimensions up to 55x40x20cm with an unlimited weight allowance). Passengers are advised to check this website for more information on baggage allowances, but can be assured that by following this simple policy, they can continue with their journey as normal.

Andy Harrison, easyJet’s Chief Executive, commented:

“There is massive scope for customer confusion in an environment where UK airports are adopting different policies. The only way to maintain a simple and standard policy is to maintain our one bag policy.”

“Also some of the major BAA airports are using the relaxation of the one bag rule as a pretext to further increase passenger charges. They increased charges when the restriction was introduced and now they want to increase charges again to remove it! easyJet will continue to resist such attempts and calls on the CAA for its full support”

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Bless, so it's all for us?!

Thank you easyJet :notworthy:

I'm glad about this from 2 perspectives. one is avoidance of confusion (as EasyJet themselves state). The revised rules are a dogs dinner. Those passengers who don't read & understand the rules and now try to bring 2 bags when not allowed will suffer at the security checks; we'll all then suffer as we get stuck behind them as they argue the toss.

The other is simply that the more bags people are allowed, the more they'll carry (human nature) & the slower the security process will go. Yes, I know the airports have installed new scanners to increase throughput - but I'd rather this resulted in a reduction in the time it takes me to go through the security check ... not an increase in the stuff I can carry through. I'd like to be able to carry 2 bags, but not at the expense of wasting more of my life in queues.

Those reports they are always publishin that say you spend 10 years of your life (or whatever) on the toilet etc. need updated to reflect the 10+ years we'll all be spending transiting airports if things keep going at the current rate.

The no weight limit will come in handy when taking over gold ingots!