I'm reading the baggage limits on the easyjet website and am confused (so what's new...)
How big is a bag 50x40x20cm and how much weight in pounds is 20kgs? It also mentions 32kgs and 50 kgs...I want to book a flight to Paris from Nice but am afraid that our luggage will be either too large or weigh too much. Can someone decipher all this for me?

Thanks,
Jennifer

From Easyjet Website :
"Each passenger is usually permitted one standard piece of hand baggage to a maximum size limit of 55x40x20cm. There is no weight restriction, within reasonable limits - i.e. a passenger must be able to place the piece of luggage safely in the overhead storage bins without assistance. In addition, passengers may carry onboard a handbag, clutchbag, coats, umbrellas, duty-free goods, laptop computers, and small items of camera equipment."

so cabin bag size aprox 22 x 16 x 8 inches - no definite weight limit.

check in baggage of no more than 50KG (110lb) total, but you are only allowed 20KG (44lb) without paying excess baggage , and no single item may weigh more than 32KG (70lb)

We flew on easyjet last summer and didn't see them weighing anyone's hand luggage. But our flight was half empty so there wasn't a problem. I have heard of others that had to check their carry on luggage even though they felt it met easyjet's requirement. Better to go lighter and smaller than they say and not pack any valuable in it. Wear/put valuables in your purse.

Thanks, Tim, for translating their verbage for me...I think we'll be ok, as we always do travel light, but I just wanted to be sure before I commit. The prices on easyjet are unbelievable, especially when compared to traveling the TGV...almost a 130euro savings.
Plus, there are 5 flights to choose from. I'll book one today!

Every time we've taken EasyJet we've had to have each bag weighed.They only allow very small hand bags as carryons.

I'm really surprised EasyJet weigh the carry on luggage when they say there is no weight restriction (within reason) but they are real sticklers on the actual size of the luggage.

I carefully bought a trolley bag that conformed to their specific dimensions and they still wouldn't let me take it on because I hadn't factored the wheels into the measurements. They made me put the bag in the metal thing that allows you to check your bag for size and I stupidly didn't think fast enough to manoeuver it so that the wheels lay outside the confines of the bars.

But if your bag does fit between the metal bars, I reckon they probably only weigh those bags that look unreasonably heavy.

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I carefully bought a trolley bag that conformed to their specific dimensions and they still wouldn't let me take it on

Beebee, isn't this what happended to Brenda last year - where she didn't have time to remove valuables which were then stolen?

Perhaps it was Ryanair - but I think with any budget airline you need to ensure that you are well within their limits.

For the price difference between Easyjet and the train service, we would still come out ahead just checking in all our bags, if it came to that. I was shocked at what a savings, both in time and euros, it is to take the plane rather than the TGV...

Thanks, all, for posting,
Jennifer

...ummmm, well here's my decidedly biased point of view on easyJet's carryon policy...
Rather than repeat my little nightmare here, PLEASE take the time to read this page from my trip report! I'll give you the short and dirty version here...

My flight was out of Pisa and into CDG. The problem started with the easyJet check-in staff, and their vigilante attitude to anyone with a carryon that didn't slide s-m-o-o-t-h-l-y through their little metal measuring device. My carryon was smaller than their requirements and I live, eat and breathe with metric measurements, so their posted metric measurements were not an issue for me.

Even though I'd pre-measured and pre-weighed my carryon, it still was too large by their standards. When I slid it through the wire measuring device the area where the handle is attached to the bag touched the wire side on the device. That was enough to set into motion a rather frightening chain of events, culminating in my spending one of my precious few days in Paris in the police station in the 18th Arr., for example...(see trip report link above.)

More than half of the passengers had the same thing happen to them at the check-in, and we were a very cranky lot, while we waited for our flight in the boarding lounge!

The flight was fine, the price was good on the fare, but the end result was so horrendously more costly than I could have dreamed of! When I contacted their office, by phone, e-mail and three times by double-registered mail, their response was as follows:
1. The guy I spoke with told me that he had no ACTUAL PROOF that I'd ever set foot on their flight! No matter that I had a ticket, boarding pass and baggage sticker tags!
2. In his infinite wisdom, he also told me that he had no actual proof that I'd ever owned the jewellry that was stolen, OR the huge stash of toiletries that were smashing into a million bits inside my carryon.
3. THEN, he wrapped up with the expressed hope that I'd enjoyed my flight with easyJet, and his fervent prayer that I'd continue to fly the friendly skies with easyJet in the future!

Would I fly easyJet again?
I'd rather have my eyelashes permed!

Basic rules of flying:
1.Try to stay in the middle of the air.
2.Do not go near the edges of it.
3.The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there.
Brenda

OK, Brenda, stupid, I'm not. I do not have an aversion to train travel, we're not in a hurry to get to Paris from Nice, and I know that after spending the first 3 weeks in Italia, I will have more than allowable weight and size for Easyjet. It's the TGV for us, hands down. BTW, I'm printing off your trip report...what a great story... You've made this an easy decision.

Grazie mille,
Jennifer

I'm not usually a hard-to-please person, Jennifer...so you need to know that for me to have such an experience be so completely and totally awful means that it was truly, truly wretched! I'm the queen of flexibility and if it is necessary to bend this way or that in any given situation, I'll usually look for the softest way around it. This time I was so ill-treated that all it did was pi$$ me off so much that I was determined to see it through!

The end result? My travel insurance policy with RBC paid me the maximum amount of $1000. It took a ga-zillion hours of work on my part, three complete files of 57 pages of documentation sent to RBC, 2 complete files of 57 pages of documentation sent to easyJet, as well as a long afternoon spent in the office de commissionnaire in the 18th Arr. in Paris, filing a police report in both French and English! Yowzers!...and I came out of it at the other end with my sanity intact! I deserve the Order of Canada for my tenacity!!!

I think the hardest thing in all of this was the cavalier way that I was treated by the contact person at the easyJet office. I so totally get it that they receive a lot of false claims on a daily basis, but the thing that they didn't realize was this...they were dealing with an honest person and I was NOT putting in a bogus claim. There was absolutely no allowance made for their people to have erred in their response to me!

It was cut and dried, thank you ma'am! We aren't going to help you, bye-bye...(this is the closest graemlin that we have to 'flippin' the bird!')

I priced out the cost of the ticket, the overage for the carry-on, the stolen jewellry and bottles of damaged toiletries, plus the time I spent in Paris chasing this down with the police, my travel agent and my insurance company, either in Paris or here at home...and I billed easyjet for over $2000. Of course, they preferred not to pay me, with the accompanying condescending letter stating their disbelief that this had actually happened.

It was a blessing that I'm a packrat, because I HAD kept all of my boarding passes, luggage tags, ticket stubs, VISA receipts, restaurant receipts, itinerary printouts from my travel agent PLUS a multitude of scraps of paper proving a million little things that were required for them to even consider listening to me. Without this and without having filed a complete and comprehensive police report in Paris, I'd have been up the proverbial creek without a paddle or a canoe!

Can you tell that over a year later, this still makes me scream to think about it?

I tell ya, it'll be the train for me next time!

“Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ~ J.R.R.Tolkien
Brenda

It is really unfortunate that this happened to Brenda re: easyJet's handling of her loss. We all felt very bad for her and I still do.

Our situation with them was very different. We used easyJet from Nice to Paris last summer, after reading that Pauline had used them out of Nice to England.
The one way ticket per person was 15 euro and the tax was about the same. We were first in the line up at the Nice airport and first on the plane to get the seats we wanted, and the check in staff and flight attendants were the nicest we have ever encountered. Our flight was great. I would use them again.

We have been treated very rudely by a few Air Canada flight attendents and 1 Sky Service flight attendent, but we still fly with these airlines if the price is right.

Whatever you choose I hope all goes well and you have a great holiday. Three weeks in Italy and then France...how exciting! J.

Thanks to you both, for the extensive info...
I feel as though I can make an intelligent decision based on what you both have experienced. I still have some time (we travel in September) so I'll post more later. Brenda, this trip report is appropriately named. It was a TRIP! I've not felt well today and I soothed my aches and pains with the lovely distraction of reading all 70 pages of this report. I felt like I was right there with you!
Our first trip to Paris was exactly like what you experienced...talk about being out of your comfort zone...and I kept reminding myself that "this wasn't Kansas, Dorothy..." and I must adapt to my new environment. From the lady at the laundry on Rue Cler who lost my favorite t-shirt, to the waiter that looked puzzled when I ordered our coffee, I felt intimidated, but, like you, I hung in there, determined to do what so many before me had done. It worked and each trip abroad brings more and more joy and less and less worry. I've realized that I'm a smart gal and can pretty much figure out whatever is thrown my way. There is not much that a bunch of money or a bunch of time cannot cure. So, with joy, we are planning another adventure. I loved your report and have put it in my reading stack for reference.

Thanks,
Jennifer in Gulfport, MS
Hurricane Katrina Zone

...and chiaro, you are right, my friend...you are a calmer voice than mine, for sure! I'll step back a little in my stand not to fly easyJet again...if it was an alternative that was available for me, I'd consider it on second thought. I'm not sure how LONG I'd consider it, but I'd give it a try!

I also know that the weight issue would be a definite concern for me, whether easyJet or Ryanair or any other no-frills airline, because I don't "pack light" by any stretch, and I know that I will always be over my limit with them!

My other alternative for that trip was to travel by train or to fly Air France, and because the Air France fare was higher by a bit, I chose easyJet. It still feels to me like I'd have been so much farther ahead travelling Air France and paying the extra...in hindsight, the thought of those extra euros would have disappeared like ice cream on a summer day, compared to the cost of the emotional struggle I had dealing with the fallout of the theft during those first 5 lost days in Paris, the cost of 6 months of fighting to get someone to reimburse me for the theft, the 652E cost of the items that the insurance didn't cover...the insurance payout was maxed out at $1000, which was about 650E at that time. Air France seems cheapcheapcheap at twice the price!

Jennifer, thank you so much for your kind words about my trip report! It was really and truly something else writing that report...I was torn between writing from my heart or writing in short, concise terms. I decided to go with my heart, and now you have all 70-some pages to deal with! (My best friend read it and told me that it was exactly like listening to me talking to her!)

I love your description of your experience in France...it remind me of one of my favorite travel quotes...

"Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes - with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating." ~ Michael Crichton
Brenda