One of the things that I was really worried about flying out of Heathrow was the one bag limit (which as of today is relaxed to the usual two bags). So because of this, back in September, I picked up the KO. I was sure that it was within the requirements for traveling on Air Canada and I took it to Seattle without any issues. The annoying part about that experience was that they changed the aircraft that I was on so the bag would not fit into the overhead bins, so I had to gate check. But the Heathrow test was still to come.
One of the things that I like about Crumpler is that if you email the company, they will actually have a real person respond (or one heck of a trained helper monkey… might not be a stretch based on the website). I emailed them to see if they had any additional or first person experience of being able to take the KO through Heathrow. The rep didn’t have experience with LHR, but she did say that she’d seen them move through Toronto and Sydney without any issues as the bag sits within the cage for the larger bag allowed on the plane.
Getting to LHR on Sunday, I had no issues taking the bag through security – they just wanted one bag and didn’t even bother to consider the size. So now, even though it’s a mute point, the KO travels very well, don’t worry about flying with this bag.
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