Stansted Airport - 1 carry on bag rule

very miffed dub

Has anybody travelled from Stansted Airport recently?

A friend of mine was telling me that they still enforce the one carry on bag rule (where a handbag has to fit inside the carry on bag) in spite of most other UK airports relaxing this in January. http://www.dft.gov.uk/transportforyou/airtravel/airportsecurity/

The Stansted Airport website seems to contradict this http://www.stanstedairport.com/portal/page/STN%5EAirport+Information%5ESecurity+Control/6af14dbac9e5d010VgnVCM10000036821c0a____/448c6a4c7f1b0010VgnVCM200000357e120a____/

My hand luggage (without handbag) is about 7kg but as I'll be in the UK for 5 days (who says women can't travel light) my bulky handbag will definitely not fit in my carry on case.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Victor

Only certain airports have a relaxation.

Check your ticket.

Cmol

I was in Stanstead a couple of months ago and yep, they do inforce the '1 carry on bag' rule to the absolute letter.... the guy checking the bags at the gates seemed to get a sick satisfaction out of making people miss their flights because of oversized / extra carry on's....

irelandsown

I'm flying to Poland from Stanstead on Tuesday. I'll have a bag and my laptop bag with me. Will this be a problem? Didn't want to check the bag in cos Ryanair were looking for £24 for one bag.

phog

I find Glasgow and Stanstead enforce the One bag rule without exception. If you hope to slip past with two bags then start making other arrangements now.

Sorry.

MartMax

i was flying back from Stansted to Dublin about 3 weeks ago. probably i was lucky and got through with a small backpack and a camera shoulder bag, unless they really count them as one piece luggage?

Third_Echelon

Stanstead are pretty strict on their carry-on rules alright... they even weigh your bags as you go through security to see if its under the carry-on allowance..

Aurora Borealis

irelandsown wrote: »

I'm flying to Poland from Stanstead on Tuesday. I'll have a bag and my laptop bag with me. Will this be a problem? Didn't want to check the bag in cos Ryanair were looking for £24 for one bag.

Whatever about handbags etc I doubt a laptop constitutes your one piece of hand luggage. As far as I know you have to take it as hand luggage so they surely can't penalise you. Can they?

jester77

Aurora Borealis wrote: »

Whatever about handbags etc I doubt a laptop constitutes your one piece of hand luggage. As far as I know you have to take it as hand luggage so they surely can't penalise you. Can they?

They can, and can be real assholes about it. My girlfriend was going through a while back with a laptop and a handbag and they said that was 2 pieces. She was eventually allowed to take out the laptop and put her handbag into the laptop bag and carry the laptop under her arm Go figure that one out!

Aurora Borealis

jester77 wrote: »

They can, and can be real assholes about it. My girlfriend was going through a while back with a laptop and a handbag and they said that was 2 pieces. She was eventually allowed to take out the laptop and put her handbag into the laptop bag and carry the laptop under her arm Go figure that one out!

Ridiculous! :rolleyes:

robinph

Carry a black bin bag with you and when you get to the checkpoint just put all of you individual smaller bags into it.

Aurora Borealis

robinph wrote: »

Carry a black bin bag with you and when you get to the checkpoint just put all of you individual smaller bags into it.

Deadly idea!

Third_Echelon

Aurora Borealis wrote: »

Whatever about handbags etc I doubt a laptop constitutes your one piece of hand luggage. As far as I know you have to take it as hand luggage so they surely can't penalise you. Can they?

You never know with budget airlines... I would double check with them first to be on the safe side.

On "regular" airlines a laptop usually counts as a personal item as does a handbag. On these airlines you are allowed 1 carry-on item in addition to the personal item...

Limerick91

As far as I know this is nothing to do with budget airlines.

The same rule is in place at East Midlands airport.

There seems to be only certain airports in the UK that have relaxed the 1 carry on bag rule.

Check the baa website

mullaj00

I went through Stansted a couple of weeks ago and had one carry-on and some bits and pieces of shopping in another palstic bag. Was told (by the mini-dictator) that there was a one bag rule and I spent ages trying to stuff everything into the one bag. I asked him when walking through that if I was to buy duty free I would then have two bags. His response was that as long as I got past him with only one bag that he didn't care after that!

Hawk Wing

Stansted and Gatwick are very strict on it, you can buy as much duty free as you can carry after security

Meathlass

Flew back through Stanstead on Tuesday 10th June - no problems with bags. My boyfriend had a small day bag (5k). I had my handbag and my bag (7k). The woman in front of us had one of those wheelie things, a handbag, laptop and plastic shopping bag. No one was stopped that I saw (we were in queue for 30 mins so had plenty of time to look around). They didn't weigh bags either. Might just depend on how busy it is (mad when I was there) and who's working. When they did have the one bag rule they wouldn't even let me bring on my newspaper as it was an extra item. I stuffed it in my bag by folding each section several times! Always give yourself extra time in Stanstead - it's a nightmare.

Pythia

I was in either Stanstead last year and they made my put my carry on bag inside a shopping bag I was carrying so it was just 'one'.