Carry-on and purses and handbags on easyJet

Hi folks, wondering if some of you seasoned travellers can help me with this question, because I find I am going in circles on the Easyjet website.

My question is...can women carry a purse and also one piece of hand luggage or is your purse considered your hand luggage?

Thanks

If it's a purse and not a handbag, of course you can.

Fantastic!! Thanks for the help.

as far as I know it's always been accepted to have a purse(or camera bag in the case of those who don't routinely carry handbags) and a carry on. I think they would only start to cause problems if you have an overly large handbag or carry on.

(please lets not have the 'purse' vs 'handbag' discussion again. american vs british terms...)

This depends if you are flying through any of the UK airports, in which case check with the airport. They have just lifted the 1 carry on bag rule at Heathrow but I think Stansted/Gatwick are still following this rule. That was also for all airlines not just EasyJet (at least the last time I flew thru London).

As LauKatOD said the confusion is only partly because easyJet are a bunch of idiotic tossers, but also because BAA are idiotic tossers too and it depends which [British] airport you are checking in at. In general you will be OK with one piece of normal cabin baggage size luggage and one extra very small purse or even a camera but would probably have a greater chance of trouble if you had two bags each half the standard cabin baggage size. In practice I've never been sent back to checkin from security and I've travelled with a variety of bags, although easyJet's checkin dollies do seem to make the rules up depending on their mood at the time.

Just put the purse inside your other piece of hand luggage, if it will fit, while you go through the security check.

Otherwise just put both bags inside a large plastic bag. Then you'll only be carrying "one bag" and the jobsworth arsetards on security will let you past.

With Easyjet you are allowed 1 item and this includes handbags, purses etc. I fly with them a lot.

first question why would a woman get a exception?

second I wish more airlines would enforce the rules. I get on a plane anywhere caring a small not overly full back pack and then i get in the plan only to find that someone has brought on 2 "carry ons" bigger than my checked bagage. Hey if you are on business and pressed for time bring one small bag and leave room for everyone. If you are a asshole and want to carryon everything you own personally i hope the airline personel tell you it is not ok and that you mouth off and they taser your ass. That would be worth all the flights with no leg room because of you and your kind. Maybe they can even let the people who can follow the rules taser you. Then there woul deven be a reward system I like that idea. i will be watching the front page for that news.

I agree.

I think that if the "purse" fits in your pocket or into your handluggage you are fine.

I noticed at Luton they are slacker on this than they used to be and people who stood no chance of getting all their "purses" etc. into a hand luggage bag got through.

In UK airports, amongst others, they have notices informing people that handbags count as part of the hand luggage - something I really agree with! I also like it when rules are enforced more and more equally!

For UK airports (and a number of others) for the last couple of years this has not been the case. All camera bags, handbags, laptop carriers, Purses, have had to fit into one (restricted size) piece of hand luggage.

Yes, I know that people have got by with more at times, but that is (or was until recently when it was relaxed slightly by BAA at least) the rule.

Women do not get exceptions. Men can carry a small bag too, or a camera bag, or a laptop bag. Most airlines do allow two pieces (of which one has to be a camera bag, a laptop bag or a purse etc.).
Exceptions may be the cheapo airlines, I think Clickair (who I just flew with today, but I only had one carry on piece) also only allows one. LH and the star alliance airlines I have flown with so far allow two.

I personally am glad they do not enforce them so strictly, because some people are not just going away for a weekend, some are going away for several months and have to squeeze everything into one suitcase of 20kg and one carry-on. I do usually comply with the size limits, just not the weight limits. Spain Air allows a carry on of 6kg. My trolley is 3kg without anything in it, I think it ended up being 12kg or so when I went home for Christmas. Luckily most allow more and carry-on bags are hardly ever weighed. I also usually pack around 2kg more in my checked bag (lately, with flying back and forth between Spain and Germany, I have been having a lot of baggage because I already took back some stuff, like books I have read, university stuff, and brought back new books to read). I never had to pay for extra luggage.
When I moved back to Germany from the States, I technically had four carry-on pieces, a regular carry-on bag, a laptop bag, a purse and a pillow (in a bag). No one said anything.