Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / August 2005

I have one comment and one question.  The comment is, it will all
depend on the aircraft.  I suspect your 22" bag will fit into 777
overhead compartments.  The question is, have you ever measured
the bag for total length including all hardware and wheels?  Perhaps
your 22" bag is actually 23".  I would think a 20" bag would fit just
fine into almost everywhere except for toy aircraft.

Casey

It varies depending on airline and airplane.  Some planes have stickers
with instructions to put rollaboards "head in" so that more can fit in
the overhead bins.  Other planes will not fit the same rollaboards that
way.

If you frequently fly a particular airline and type of plane, you may
want to measure the bin depth the next time you fly with that airline
and type of plane.

I have also found that "sometimes" if you put the piece in wheels first but
upside down (wheels up) more luggage fits than with wheels down in many
aircraft.  I just did a flight to LAS from ATL in AirTran 737 business
class, and the first two bins would not hold my carry-on wheels in or out
because of the hinges on the bin.  I had to put it in near the rear of the
2nd bin and then slide it forward behind the hinges, sideways.  It would not
fit in any bin in the NW 747 upper deck (world business class - WBC) bins
either (because of its height which was legal according to the airline) but
would fit in the WBC lower deck bins fine as well as the A320 WBC bins.