{"id":5580,"date":"2015-08-03T15:43:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T14:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5580"},"modified":"2015-08-03T15:43:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T14:43:58","slug":"british-airways-crack-down-on-hand-luggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/british-airways-crack-down-on-hand-luggage\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways crack down on hand luggage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/British-Air.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5581\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/British-Air.jpg\" alt=\"British Air\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>British Airways has reduced the size of hand luggage after claiming that passenger bags were getting so big it was causing regular flight delays.<br \/>\nThe airline, which allows each person to have two bags in the cabin, is almost halving the size of the \u201cpersonal\u201d bag.<br \/>\nThousands of BA passengers will be affected by the tighter restrictions which will be enforced later this month.<br \/>\nFrom August 18, passengers will be limited to personal bags no bigger than 40x30x15cm \u2013 compared with the current maximum of 45x36x20cm.<br \/>\nIt could lead to many travellers having to buy new luggage or even buying smaller laptops.<br \/>\nThe size of the main piece of hand luggage \u2013 which is often a wheel-on bag \u2013 will remain the same at 56x45x25cm.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/british-airways-crack-down-on-hand-luggage\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways has reduced the size of hand luggage after claiming that passenger bags were getting so big it was causing regular flight delays. The airline, which allows each person to have two bags in the cabin, is almost halving the size of the \u201cpersonal\u201d bag. Thousands of BA passengers will be affected by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5582,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions\/5582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}