There are new luggage rules and prices on airlines flying from Manchester

There have been big changes to luggage restrictions you need to be aware of if you have flights booked this year. 

Under new government guidance, airlines will be asking all travellers to check-in luggage to minimise what is brought onto the aircraft. 

At this moment it is unclear as to whether airlines will be waiving the fee for additional bags in the hold.

Passengers flying with easyJet can bring one item of hand luggage (56cm x 45cm x 25cm) onto the plane.

Bags over 15kg can be checked in online with prices starting at £6.99 and going up to £34.99 depending on the flight. Luggage between 15 and 23kg costs between £9.49 and £37.49 to check in online before the flight.

Checking in luggage at the gate or at the bag drop desk can set you back £40 so it’s worth doing it online before your flight. 

British Airways are allowing free checked-in luggage (up to 46kg) on all flights (excluding hand luggage only tickets).

Jet2 passengers can take a suitcase into the cabin for free as long as it is within the following measurements, 56cm x 45cm x 25cm, and weighs less than 10kg.

Jet2 passengers can check in up to three bags weighing 22kg each and fees range between £8 and £45 depending on flight details. You will face £12 per kg if your bag is over 22kg.

Ryanair are continuing to recommend customers to ‘minimise checked in luggage’ which will set you back £17.50 for 10kg luggage depending on the flight. 

A Ryanair spokesman told Which?: “We are encouraging extra cabin bags because this reduces the risk of Covid-19 compared with the DfT’s idiotic advice to maximise checked-in bags, which pass through eight different sets of hands and significantly increase the risk of Covid-19.”