cabin baggage

Meaning

This refers to the luggage that passengers are allowed to carry with them into the passenger compartment of an aircraft, rather than checking it into the cargo hold. It is also commonly referred to as 'carry-on luggage' or 'hand luggage.'

Examples

• Please ensure your cabin baggage complies with our size and weight restrictions.

  Please ensure your cabin baggage complies with our size and weight restrictions.

• You must store your cabin baggage in the overhead locker or under the seat in front of you.

  You must store your cabin baggage in the overhead locker or under the seat in front of you.

• The airline charges an additional fee for any cabin baggage that exceeds the standard dimensions.

  The airline charges an additional fee for any cabin baggage that exceeds the standard dimensions.

• Valuable items and medications should always be kept in your cabin baggage.

  Valuable items and medications should always be kept in your cabin baggage.

• Passengers are permitted one piece of cabin baggage and one small personal item.

  Passengers are permitted one piece of cabin baggage and one small personal item.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ I need to check my cabin baggages at the desk.

  ✓ I need to check my cabin baggage at the desk.

  'Baggage' is an uncountable noun in English. It should never be pluralized as 'baggages'.

• ✗ Can I bring this big suitcase as a cabin luggage?

  ✓ Can I bring this big suitcase as cabin luggage?

  'Luggage' and 'baggage' are uncountable, so they do not take the indefinite article 'a'. You can say 'a piece of cabin luggage' or just 'cabin luggage'.

Related Expressions

Practice

• Please place your ___ in the overhead compartment.

  💡 Bags you take onto the plane.

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  cabin baggage

• Each passenger is allowed one piece of ___ free of charge.

  💡 The formal term for carry-on bags.

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  cabin baggage