Carrying 23kg of luggage? Some airlines allow more handbags
Different airlines and countries have different restrictions on handbags. Photo: iStock The aviation industry is in turmoil as it struggles to resume operations after the pandemic. One of the victims was a passenger’s checked baggage. Baggage handlers shortages, last-minute schedule changes and cancellations have combined to create flight problems as thousands of passengers around the world find themselves waiting on the carousel for bags that fail to arrive. Parting with your checked baggage, especially if you’re on a cruise ship or somewhere else that’s not easy to reach, is bad enough, but for some people it’s much worse. Important medicines have been lost. Lufthansa has lost the instrument needed for a year-end concert in England. Qantas has temporarily lost the checked baggage of one unfortunate passenger with his mother’s ashes on a flight from London to Sydney. They reunited four days after his flight landed, but not before the airline lashed out on social media