hand luggage

noun

: small pieces of luggage that a passenger can carry onto an airplane

You are entitled to one piece of hand luggage per flight.

Examples of hand luggage in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The lightweight kaftan can also be stored in your hand luggage for those desperate to be beach ready after a long-haul flight. —Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025

She was detained in December after 82 fireworks, three knives, two replica firearms and a canister of pepper spray were found inside her hand luggage. —Cnn, The Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2024

There are also many cruisers traveling with just hand luggage these days and using onboard laundry services (like Windstar’s), saving time and energy and making international and domestic travel much easier. —Lewis Nunn, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024

That shouldn’t detract too much from what remain a hugely stylish, powerful little laptop that is ideally suited to business executives who want a device to slip into their hand luggage. —Barry Collins, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024

Unclaimed Baggage also sells items left in seat pockets, overhead bins and in hand luggage, said Sonni Hood, the store’s spokesperson. —Faith Karimi, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024

Start by packing all essential items in your hand luggage. —David Nikel, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024

And unlike your traditional pliers-style multitool, which usually have a blade longer than the allowable length for airline hand luggage, Toolkey II is TSA compliant. —Dave Gosling, New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2024

Medium-haul passengers carried 0.2 kg (0.4 lbs) more hand luggage than short-haul passengers. —Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024