JetBlue's New Carry-on Allowance!!!

[karin037]

http://help.jetblue.com/SRVS/CGI-BI...000011296800,K=6007,Sxi=1,case=obj(377919)#s1

Carry-on Baggage Dimensions

Effective February 12, 2007, the carry-on baggage sizes will change to the following
dimensions:

* A320: 26 inches length x 18 inches width x 12 inches height
* E190: 24 inches length x 16 inches width x 10 inches height


Each Customer may bring one carry-on bag.

 

[Tiffany]

http://help.jetblue.com/SRVS/CGI-BI...0000000011296800,K=6007,Sxi=1,case=obj(377919)

Carry-on Baggage Dimensions

Effective February 12, 2007, the carry-on baggage sizes will change to the following
dimensions:

* A320: 26 inches length x 18 inches width x 12 inches height
* E190: 24 inches length x 16 inches width x 10 inches height


Each Customer may bring one carry-on bag.

So just one carry-on? No personal items allowed?

 

[karin037]

I think you're still allowed a personal item as well.

 

[Tiffany]

I think you're still allowed a personal item as well.

Oh Okay. Not a big deal at least to us. Thanks for posting the update.

 

[bavaria]

I'm sorry, but that is insane. 26 inches??? that is the size of my full size suitcase that I take regularly for trips of a month. How on earth will all of that fit, when overhead bins are already crammed full?

I fly on A320's a lot on United; every seat is full, and every flight the last folks boarding end up having to 'gate check' their carryons due to lack of space.

 

[CarolA]

This will be fun
1. How are you going to lift a 26" bag overhead?
2. If all the folks ahead of you bring on the max size luggage assume that the late boarders will be gate checking. No matter what they have done there is not enough room for EVERYONE to bring a 26" bag.

 

[siobhan1997]

I love Jetblue but 26" !!!

With the new 3-1-1 on liquids, gels, etc. I am still going to have to send our families bags in the belly of the plane.

I am sure that the TSA security will not like this very much. I am sure this will create additional time being held up at security as there is now larger bags to check. How are these bags going to fit through xray machines?

 

[kaytieeldr]

I know JetBlue is removing one row of seats from each plane (to expand the pitch in rows two through eleven to 36 inches from the current 32 inches) but that still doesn't seem to allow for larger bags for everyone.

Plus, as Carol points out - who's going to lift my 26" bag overhead? Certainly not me. Guess I'll STILL be carrying on only what I can maneuver myself

 

[Jeanne B]

I pity the poor gentlemen who are going to feel obligated to help lift those 26" bags up into the storage bins. One of my major pet peeves is people who carry on luggage they know they can't lift but carry it on anyway rather than checking it and I'm sure those same people won't think twice about carrying on a 26" bag.

 

[Armadillo4]

I am sure that the TSA security will not like this very much. I am sure this will create additional time being held up at security as there is now larger bags to check. How are these bags going to fit through xray machines?

Good point! I don't think most 26" uprights, suiters, pullmans, etc. will fit through the x-ray machines. Maybe I'm wrong, but hopefully the physical limitations of the x-ray machines will prevent the glut of 26" bags being brought on board Jet Blue planes.

 

[AllyBri]

It must be a mistake or misprint.
I cannot even imagine a suitcase that size fitting in the overhead.

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

I agree that these sizes must be an error. No way a 26" suitcase will fit through the security x-ray scanner, let alone in an overhead compartment.

 

[Lewisc]

For an A320 we're looking at 56 linear inches. The maximum size for checked luggage, many airlines, is only 62 linear inches. We're looking at extremely generous carryon allowances (SW is 50 linear inches for carryon) or, assuming a typo, lower checked luggage limits.

 

[disneyag]

The JetBlue website states 24x16x10 for carry on luggage.

 

[Lewisc]

The JetBlue website states 24x16x10 for carry on luggage.

The site is still showing, look at the link in this thread.

A320: 26 inches length x 18 inches width x 12 inches height

Some of us wonder if that's a mistake.

 

[bavaria]

interesting - the link doesn't redirect to the 'new policy as of Feb 12' page as it did last night, and the carryon luggage information quotes 24 inches, not 26 inches, and does not reference two types of aircraft.

Either they have not updated the site to reflect today's change, or someone realized the idiocy of this move.

 

[karin037]

interesting - the link doesn't redirect to the 'new policy as of Feb 12' page as it did last night, and the carryon luggage information quotes 24 inches, not 26 inches, and does not reference two types of aircraft.

Either they have not updated the site to reflect today's change, or someone realized the idiocy of this move.

The link is still bringing up the same info. You can also go to JetBlue's website>click on help>scroll all the way down to the bottom of the help page and click on>Still need help? Click here to visit our Help search page.>And it will be right there under-Most Popular Questions.>Revised Carry-on Baggage Sizes effective February 12, 2007

 

[kaytieeldr]

I called. The sizes in Karin's post are correct. The CSR said it's because they've taken out a row of seats in each plane (or will have, by mid-March) there's more room for carry-on luggage now.

 

[TDC Nala]

I pity the poor gentlemen who are going to feel obligated to help lift those 26" bags up into the storage bins. One of my major pet peeves is people who carry on luggage they know they can't lift but carry it on anyway rather than checking it and I'm sure those same people won't think twice about carrying on a 26" bag.

Does that include the guys who seem to assume that I can't lift my bag and get up and do it anyway?

I don't have any trouble lifting my bag. It isn't 26" though.

 

[bavaria]

last week my 26 inch bag which is 8 lbs empty weighed 56 lbs (I am allowed 70 lbs per bag). No way could I lift that into a bin, and no way it would fit into the bin. My 22 inch is a tight squeeze.

Removing rows increases seat pitch, it does not make the bins any larger.