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Jet2 includes one 10 kg piece of hand luggage up to 56 x 45 x 25 cm, plus an under-seat bag up to 40 x 30 x 20 cm. The…

The free under-seat bag and the larger cabin bag on six UK airlines, with weights, who gets each one and the backpacks that fit them all.

Ryanair's free small bag is 40 x 30 x 20 cm and its 10kg Cabin Bag is 55 x 40 x 20 cm. Who gets which bag, what happens at…

easyJet's free small cabin bag is 45 x 36 x 20 cm and its large cabin bag 56 x 45 x 25 cm, both up to 15 kg. Who gets…

British Airways includes a 56 x 45 x 25 cm cabin bag and a 40 x 30 x 15 cm hand bag in every cabin, with no weight limit stated.…

My sleeping bag once rolled thirty metres down a slope because I had strapped it wrong. These are the three ways I attach it to a backpack now, and when…

The zone-by-zone method for packing a hiking rucksack, from the sleeping bag at the bottom to the waterproof at the top. The weight goes where your back can carry it,…

Treat a backpack like a T-shirt and you ruin it. Here is when the washing machine is safe, how to wash one by hand, material by material, and the slow…

How many litres for the city, a day hike, a trek or a long trip, why a bigger backpack does not mean more freedom, and the one habit nobody has,…